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The Living Room
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This open forum, The Living Room, was the brain child of Rev. Don Beisswenger and a few others, which met after the noon meal at DPC on Wednesdays. Rev. Beisswenger died in 2018.
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This open forum, The Living Room, was the brain child of Rev. Don Beisswenger and a few others, which met after the noon meal at DPC on Wednesdays. Rev. Beisswenger died in 2018.
I became homeless about a year and a half ago. Like a lot of people, I found my way to the day center at the Room It The Inn here in Nashville.
Nashville has looked at the problem of food deserts, and done a few things to solve it. For instance, you can double your EBT at the downtown Farmer’s Market. Edible Nashville publishes a yearly guide to local farmers and regional farmers that offer CSA’s. The town of Andernach, Germany, with a population of 30,000, has managed over the last 16 years to create a complete Food Island. They have 38,000 square feet of food growing in all public spaces.
As I walked along my spot on Old Hickory Boulevard and Central Pike picking up trash all along the side of the bluff, I noticed a bunch of papers just blowing around in the wind.
I was having a reasonably successful day out on my corner, when two nice looking people walked up to me.
This past week I moved out of Mercury Courts Apartments where I have been housed for almost 19 years, to the MDHA property Centennial Towers off of West End avenue.
My Uncle Harry is 81 years old this year. He is vital and funny and very technically oriented. He had a great life as a software and hardware engineer in computers. We spent 40 years not being able to find each other, but found each other during Covid. He helped me repair my truck.
Benefits of using a CPAP machine: You wake up and everything smells like ironed clothes.
In my almost 19 year association with The Contributor and holding Vendor Badge #0002, I have a pretty good idea who buys our paper.