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Antonio Manuel Chavira
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Trauma-Informed America
The Fantasy vs. the Trauma-Informed USAImagine you’re asked to just hold on financially for a month. No income, just expenses. Could you hold on for two? Or five? For a year? We ask people to do that very often, especially if you have a disability or a history of mental illness.
Does the thought seem scary? Would doing this cause anxiety daily? This may be because there is no rock bottom in America
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Beat L.A.
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“What do you do with all of these people on the street? Surround them with an army of police officers to mimic their jail experience? No, you help them to assimilate into a society that wants them to be productive and healthy. We cannot solve our homeless problem by shuffling it to the corners of the city.”
― Beat L.A.
― Beat L.A.
“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?”
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“Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”
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“What do you do with all of these people on the street? Surround them with an army of police officers to mimic their jail experience? No, you help them to assimilate into a society that wants them to be productive and healthy. We cannot solve our homeless problem by shuffling it to the corners of the city.”
― Beat L.A.
― Beat L.A.
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