Paul and the Cup of Friendship follow-up
I hope that you have enjoyed reading the articles that have been published to start this new year. In my writings, I have blended family stories with history and my personal journey. My hope is not to offend people but to potentially challenge what they have thought or have learned. In doing this, I long for people to find commonality in their own ways.
In a few of the writings, I have included stories and events that have occurred in the recent past. In saying this, I firmly believe that people should know updates regarding the stories I have written about. Due to this, I am adding a post to the blog this week regarding my time in Montana. I was initially going to publish it right away, but after much thought and contemplation, it was paused for a couple of weeks.
If you have not read my previously published post about the homeless friends I wrote about, please click on the link and read it before finishing this post. https://this-life-i-have-lived.ghost.io/paul-and-the-cup-of-friendship/ If you have read the article already, by all means, continue. My intention is not to whine or continually harp on certain issues. I am doing this in memory of my friends—those who are no longer alive, those who do not have a voice or cannot be heard. Whose voices have simply died.
Andrew Gumbel
The above article was published in The Guardian, an alternative to mainstream news about what is happening in Kalispell, Montana. I spent the last two years there with my spouse, working with at-risk populations in organizations and on my own. This article has done an incredible job of articulating some of the things that I saw and encountered while working there. It shows what people continue to go through as these words are typed. The unfortunate truth is these types of situations are becoming more and more common throughout the United States.
I would ask that you share the article by Andrew Gumbel with people you know.
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