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Charlie Quimby
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Monument Road
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2013
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Inhabited
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Not So Far from Home: Owning Homelessness in My Own Backyard
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Small Abundances.
I spend my Wednesdays with people whose entire store of material possessions would fit in your garage.
Yes, even in YOUR garage, packed so full you park your cars in the driveway.
Except maybe John's possessions. He has a house in Idaho, but it's polluted with black mold. A sister bought it for him after he cared for their mother for 30 years.
He has tools and maybe a motorcycle upon which his mother
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“When we say ‘housing for all’ and the government responds with ‘the homeless are being temporarily housed in hotels to avoid the spread of the virus’, they are building a linguistic structure that defines the realm of the possible, that implicitly tells us to want less, to expect that total reconfiguration is out of the question. Like a poorly designed building, linguistic structures affect how we think, breathe, move and act. The mould sticks to our skin. We are familiar with a particular kind of linguistic structure: the preservation of a system of organisation that places capital before all else. This system ties our hands and feet together.”
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“She read him a magazine article about how elephants could convey their movements to each other over long distances, warn of trouble and signal their readiness to mate. That’s what prayer can do, too, she said, if people just knew how to pay attention. He didn’t know about elephants or prayer or how unspoken things were transmitted but something in what she said must be true. Otherwise, how could he know what love felt like?”
― Monument Road
― Monument Road
“Class is mostly a way to find something in myself I didn't know was there. Learning doesn't fill me up so much as opens me up. Shakes me loose and throws me off my habits -- might even rearrange me. It's like if you only rode Brandy and not Geronimo or Elvis. Once in a while I want to get on a horse that scares me sideways.”
― Monument Road
― Monument Road
“One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.”
― The Sound of Mountain Water
― The Sound of Mountain Water
“When we say ‘housing for all’ and the government responds with ‘the homeless are being temporarily housed in hotels to avoid the spread of the virus’, they are building a linguistic structure that defines the realm of the possible, that implicitly tells us to want less, to expect that total reconfiguration is out of the question. Like a poorly designed building, linguistic structures affect how we think, breathe, move and act. The mould sticks to our skin. We are familiar with a particular kind of linguistic structure: the preservation of a system of organisation that places capital before all else. This system ties our hands and feet together.”
― Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
― Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
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