http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/01/09/decatur-native-helping-out-those-living-in-tunnels-under-las-vegas/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:05:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/01/09/decatur-native-helping-out-those-living-in-tunnels-under-las-vegas/#comment-83486 chira Sun, 09 Jan 2011 16:38:58 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-83486 So few people REALIZE how many homeless people there are, and how few alternatives there are for shelter and food. With the big storm coming in tonight and Monday in the Atlanta area, you can be sure that thousands of people will be waiting out the storm under any shelter they can find: cold, wet, hungry, and perhaps ill. Think on this quotation from Kafka: "Deeply lost in the night. Just as one sometimes lowers one's head to reflect, thus to be utterly lost in the night. All around people are asleep. It's just play acting, an innocent self-deception, that they sleep in houses, in safe beds, under a safe roof, stretched out or curled up on mattresses, in sheets, under blankets; in reality they have flocked together as they had once upon a time and again later in a deserted region, a camp in the open, a countless number of men, an army, a people, under a cold sky on cold earth, collapsed where once they had stood, forehead pressed on the arm, face to the ground, breathing quietly. And you are watching, are one of the watchmen, you find the next one by brandishing a burning stick from the brushwood pile beside you. Why are you watching? Someone must watch, it is said. Someone must be there." God bless Matt O'Brien for his work and care on behalf of the homeless of Last Vegas. So few people REALIZE how many homeless people there are, and how few alternatives there are for shelter and food. With the big storm coming in tonight and Monday in the Atlanta area, you can be sure that thousands of people will be waiting out the storm under any shelter they can find: cold, wet, hungry, and perhaps ill. Think on this quotation from Kafka:
“Deeply lost in the night. Just as one sometimes lowers one’s head to reflect, thus to be utterly lost in the night. All around people are asleep. It’s just play acting, an innocent self-deception, that they sleep in houses, in safe beds, under a safe roof, stretched out or curled up on mattresses, in sheets, under blankets; in reality they have flocked together as they had once upon a time and again later in a deserted region, a camp in the open, a countless number of men, an army, a people, under a cold sky on cold earth, collapsed where once they had stood, forehead pressed on the arm, face to the ground, breathing quietly. And you are watching, are one of the watchmen, you find the next one by brandishing a burning stick from the brushwood pile beside you. Why are you watching? Someone must watch, it is said. Someone must be there.”
God bless Matt O’Brien for his work and care on behalf of the homeless of Last Vegas.

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