I guess as I write, more things will be revealed. Briefly, I started a program I call Do Something! to volunteer thru selfless service and impact the community. My particular group of friends whom partnered with me on this, decided we would provide food for people and their pets living on the streets Together we want to do something that matters. Over time and by spending months in other cities we located a spot near LAX airport called Manchester Square. There we have provided food and items bi-monthly for almost a year now.
This area was first hit when the powers of LAX, thru the city government, took peoples houses thru imminent domain. This used to be a thriving community of working class people, even had its own elementary school. Almost 500 homes and apartment buildings once stood here, now less then a handful of holdouts remain. Imagine no houses but instead fenced off properties so you can see down past all the blocks of the square neighborhood. Then on the curbside grass/dirt areas between drive ways are encampments of people down several streets and RVs and cars down another few streets. When we talk to the people who are living down there, we find that they lived in places we live in and know people we know, some are even related to people we know. You find people who lost jobs, lost sanity, lost loved ones, lost sobriety yet even as lost as some of them are, they are a community that we see helping one another out.
Recently I found out that they will be breaking ground soon and the people living on the streets need to relocate. In an effort to do this the “right” way, LAX and the city agencies like DMV, Veterans affairs, PATH, non profits, churches and more had a street fair. My group was invited and 2 of us went. We had been invited because the people living down there “trust” us, is what I was told and, we could help bring the people to the tables, whatever reason, I was just grateful to be invited and attend and see how the resources can be found to assist people when all of us make it happen.
As we walked around the event today we met a woman, a Reverend named Doris, that was carrying with her a Native American wooden staff adorned with flags or bits of colored fabric with chimes made of tiny bells, it is so revered that she only had possession of it for 2 months and it comes from and has traveled thru south and central America and was/is used for powerful woman’s circles. The staff itself had been at Standing Rock. As Rev Doris was describing the staff, she invited us to a women’s circle, we had no instruments so we started drumming on our thighs as Reverend Doris empowered the staff with, Abuelos y abuelas. Sabious de la Pacha Mama or Grandfathers and grandmothers, wisdom keepers of mother earth. Which awakens the staff before we started setting our intentions. Then we went around the circle and spoke of what the staff was awakening in us and with total clarity, I knew, I am a warrior! Here to cut the path for people to find a new way of living. To remind people of what really matters. To educate people of this other option, a way out of the matrix.
Today’s experience just reaffirms that I am on the right path and the right journey. Through my I Vlogging I intend to illuminate how life can be lived comfortably, freely and for very little money. I am looking so forward to the experiences and educational process this adventure will bring. Setting an intention for this journey is critical to be able to attain the knowledge that is really needed for people struggling to find themselves in the state of the world today.
We will meet all types along the road. What we are finding is more and more people are coming to certain conclusions about today’s society. I hope to bring some insight to you all thru this process and of course answer questions along the way.
And we have only just begun…
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I need to know how, or where, or what initially was your first inspiration to start this journey.
Ive started mine as well, but i want to help others out there like myself, and i dont know how to not just keep struggling due to the consequences for who i try and help out.
Im not sure i even know how to explain it, but ive traveled across the country, just to realize what my purpose in life is…. after and currently while so many unnecessary hard times are breaking me slowly but surely. I just need someone to hear me, im not a charity case and i have the best and most pure intentions for the world and everyone i get the pleasure of crossing paths with.
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