I’m sitting here with my coffee mug trying to sum this up. It occurs to me that the human race has spent lots of time trying various means to scry the future. A waste of time considering that if you want to know the future all you need do is wait. And as for the far future well what’s the point? If it happens after we die then we weren’t going to experience it anyway. Brother Theodore once quiped, "Why do so many people try to see what is behind the beyond when so few of them can see what is beyond their behind?"
     At various times people have tried to see the future in the patterns of thrown bones or in cards, sometimes by interpreting the way tea leaves lay on the bottom of a cup. Me I can tell the future by looking into the reflecting surface of a cup of black coffee. I see what the future will hold. It holds an empty  cup.
     Presently I have a small single room apartment off a garage. It has a bathroom complete with a tub and shower. I no longer have to sleep in my old car. Indeed as luck had it this became available as my car was towed off. The city had threatened to fine the owner of the property where it was unless it was gone in 30 days so I put my stuff into a storage locker and arranged to have it scrapped. I lucked into my van that week and then the room. I spent maybe two or three weeks sleeping on an office floor in-between losing my car and getting the van which was helpful but not what I wanted.
     Anyway all that is past history. I have managed to keep myself afloat here for two years now. I am never more than a month or two usually from bring unable to afford this and becoming homeless again. My aim is to get myself to a level where that will no longer be a constant concern for me. Wish me luck?
     There is so much I should go into, much I forgot to bring up and will probably edit it in later. Like my foray into having two online shops. Both were affiliate type programs and so never cost me anything as well as never earning a penny. I hoped they would be more than just learning experiences but oddly they led a large number of people to this site!
     I had rather thought it would be the other way around!
     Life is funny like that.
    Look while I don"t claim to know the "solution" to the problem of homelessness - except in my case, but then we get intto the problem of jobs and full employment - I hoped to show you that this problem is more than the simple picture we all have had of it. Not all homeless are addicts or mentally troubled, for ever person on the streets or in a shelter there are several reasons in all sorts of combinations. The "cure" will not be one answer. For each case there are probably several things needed, otherwise it would solely be a matter of handing out enough money to pay for food, housing and services. True this would be a boon to cash strapped farmers and cause a nice housing boom and jobs in several industries but it isn't that simple. For one thing many homeless people have the drive, will and the ideas that will change their lives around but this is always pushed aside.
    Also I want you to look among your family and friends and realize that they may be among the next to face this trouble. You too for that matter; I know lots of homeless families who did all the right things and still ended up in this desperation.
Maybe you can do something in your area to change their luck by turning them on to a job opening or hiring them or helping them to learn a new skill. Or maybe just listen to a friend in need - I can't begin to tell you how much I needed that. A cup of coffee on a cold morning would be nice too!
    Whatever the problems are where you live some part of the solution is in your hands. Not all of it and not for everyone but even a small help is welcome and appreciated. Besides you'll feel good for it too. I guess that holds true in more than just this issue. I have a friend who is very religious but never says "God bless America" or ask her God to do that. You know why? She tells me that when she looks around her at the people here she knows that it has been done and continues to be. I bet she would feel that way if she met you too!
     At this time I would like to thank you for visiting here. I hope I have given you some insight and encourage you to sign my guest book! Of course from time to time I will make updates and I would like you to pass on this site’s URL to your friends and family. Please feel free to return anytime!
     So as I close this I see I have finished my coffee.
     I told you I could see the future!

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