God’s Message to Treehuggers and Peacemakers: Blessed Are the Peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. (Matthew 5:9) Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, [...]
I first noticed them at the next bench over from the drummers’ bench, a separate group of homeless youth who often congregated there. They wore different clothes than the rest of the people. Their clothes were darker and somewhat [...]
You can tell it’s not an ordinary place. The ornate Victorian row houses in the neighborhoods around the Haight are incredibly beautiful, like jewelry boxes or elaborate cakes in pastel colors. Their curved balconies with rounded windows, their rich decorations of gold medallions and [...]
The hippies have been chased away from sitting on the front steps of the McDonald’s that’s on the corner of Haight Street and Stanyan in San Francisco in the hippie capital of the world. It’s too bad because their gathering there was a [...]
God’s Message to Treehuggers and Peacemakers: BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS: for they shall be called the children of God. (Matthew 5:9) BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS: FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED. (Matthew 5:6) THOU ART [...]
THE CLEAN AIR OF THE UNTOUCHED To see the people at the Campground, those completely inexperienced new arrivals there in these snug little cabins they’d built themselves, was to realize that most people could do whatever they set their mind to. Ordinary people were smart enough to build good [...]
THE LILIES OF THE FIELD People look at them sideways as they pass by along their way toward the drum circle. These street kids are the dustiest, wildest-looking bunch on Sharon Meadow. They look as if they’ve lived outside for years, and they have. They share a rugged existence [...]
GOD’S EYES I first noticed them at the next bench over from the drummers’ bench, a separate group of homeless youth who often congregated there. They wore different clothes than the rest of the people. Their clothes were darker and somewhat dusty, but serviceable for survival. Next to the [...]
THE HAIGHT You can tell it’s not an ordinary place. The ornate Victorian row houses in the neighborhoods around the Haight are incredibly beautiful, like jewelry boxes or elaborate cakes in pastel colors. Their curved balconies with rounded windows, their rich decorations of gold medallions [...]