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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 620623" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Our daughter lived on the streets by choice for 4 months during below zero temps and through a three day blizzard. She knew homelessness was coming and seemed almost to look forward to it. There had been a plan for her to join her ex-husband and kids in another state instead of going homeless. She chose life on the streets over that. When she did call us, asking to come in off the streets, it was because the male she was living on the streets with was picked up and jailed. During the time she was home with us, she went back to the streets periodically. She knows the safe places and people. She panhandled for money. She ate at the mission, got new clothes from donation centers, received free medical care. As Echo described, our daughter told us the street people have a general idea of where everyone they know is at night, and check on one another in the morning. She said life was often hard or frightening, but that for the most part things were simple and very beautiful. For instance, she describes sleeping on a porch and having the time and solitude to watch the sunrise in the morning, or watching the moon make its way across the sky. Being present, in the moment, whatever that moment was. As Echo reported was the case with her son, our daughter too seemed proud to have survived in this way with very few possessions. She feels this is part of her life path, and an important piece of her spirituality.</p><p></p><p>Though we are certain drug abuse was involved too, alcohol was a defining piece of the picture in our daughters case, as it was/is for those with whom she shared her life on the streets. There are drug users on the streets, too. She seemed to feel they were dangerous. Each group seemed to have their own areas where they met, sharing alcohol or drugs or whatever. </p><p></p><p>Some have tents, some sleep under bridges.</p><p></p><p>Our daughter has four children ranging in age from 21 to 6 years old. Two years ago at this time, she was a teacher. She was engaged, and had a beautiful home. She sees those things now as meaningless. She has talked about the grind of the working life, and how hard it was to make ends meet. "Always chasing more" is the way she described it to us, once.</p><p></p><p>I don't know how to be the mom to someone who is doing what my daughter is doing. It is a very hard thing to understand or accept. But Echo is correct. There are people who find a meaning in life on the streets that they do not find in working and buying and having things. </p><p></p><p>I don't know if this is true for others, but in our daughter's case it seemed, in some ways, that she was determined to do just what she did.</p><p> </p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 620623, member: 17461"] Our daughter lived on the streets by choice for 4 months during below zero temps and through a three day blizzard. She knew homelessness was coming and seemed almost to look forward to it. There had been a plan for her to join her ex-husband and kids in another state instead of going homeless. She chose life on the streets over that. When she did call us, asking to come in off the streets, it was because the male she was living on the streets with was picked up and jailed. During the time she was home with us, she went back to the streets periodically. She knows the safe places and people. She panhandled for money. She ate at the mission, got new clothes from donation centers, received free medical care. As Echo described, our daughter told us the street people have a general idea of where everyone they know is at night, and check on one another in the morning. She said life was often hard or frightening, but that for the most part things were simple and very beautiful. For instance, she describes sleeping on a porch and having the time and solitude to watch the sunrise in the morning, or watching the moon make its way across the sky. Being present, in the moment, whatever that moment was. As Echo reported was the case with her son, our daughter too seemed proud to have survived in this way with very few possessions. She feels this is part of her life path, and an important piece of her spirituality. Though we are certain drug abuse was involved too, alcohol was a defining piece of the picture in our daughters case, as it was/is for those with whom she shared her life on the streets. There are drug users on the streets, too. She seemed to feel they were dangerous. Each group seemed to have their own areas where they met, sharing alcohol or drugs or whatever. Some have tents, some sleep under bridges. Our daughter has four children ranging in age from 21 to 6 years old. Two years ago at this time, she was a teacher. She was engaged, and had a beautiful home. She sees those things now as meaningless. She has talked about the grind of the working life, and how hard it was to make ends meet. "Always chasing more" is the way she described it to us, once. I don't know how to be the mom to someone who is doing what my daughter is doing. It is a very hard thing to understand or accept. But Echo is correct. There are people who find a meaning in life on the streets that they do not find in working and buying and having things. I don't know if this is true for others, but in our daughter's case it seemed, in some ways, that she was determined to do just what she did. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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