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	<description>by Beverly Graham</description>
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		<title>Margaret</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day I was parked on the corner of Occidental across from  the park. It was a much different park in the early 90’s. At that time the benches were removed so that those who were homeless couldn’t sit or sleep. If they did they were sited and taken into custody for loitering. The City [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Jym</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 05:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we are children we are taught to hold hands when crossing the street, not to eat paste, to share our toys, and to play nice. As we grow we are often taught to stop sharing, to eat anything we want, even it is bad for us, and play any way we want as long [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>let your heart break&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.spirit-speak.org/?p=277</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day I tried to have at least 400 lunches to hand out. It usually took me about 5 hours to put the meals together and a half of an hour to hand them out. I always took extra food just in case someone came up after all the full lunch bags were gone. One [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>generosity</title>
		<link>https://www.spirit-speak.org/?p=272</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Besides handing out sleeping bags I also handed out new warm blankets. Blanket day was always stressful and the crowds around my van were very desperate. They would line up around the corner to get a blanket. Sometimes they would push and shove each other and I would get dinged. I am 4’11” and weigh [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>hero&#8217;s</title>
		<link>https://www.spirit-speak.org/?p=269</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day I was handing out lunches out of the back of my van at the Lazarus Day Center when it was on Occidental, a store owner walked out from their storefront and started yelling at me for feeding so many people. She called the police and all the homeless folks circled me to keep [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pride</title>
		<link>https://www.spirit-speak.org/?p=266</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the early 1990’s many of the people who waited for me to arrive with food were a bit older; 35ish to 80. Most of them were men, some elderly women, a lot of them were veterans. There was a young man who showed up one day, he was around 20ish and very angry. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Disobedience…</title>
		<link>https://www.spirit-speak.org/?p=260</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overlake school, a private school in Bellevue, was the first school to volunteer with me in 1991. 12 students arrived to help hand out lunches…These were students from a very privileged school and I really did not know what to expect from them but they were amazing. We started handing out food and the police [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ramon&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.spirit-speak.org/?p=257</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Sunday I was handing out bags and it was getting dark and it was very cold. There were no more names on my list so I started taking names for the next week. I still had eight sleeping bags in my van. After I took the first name and ID I decided that it [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeping Bags</title>
		<link>https://www.spirit-speak.org/?p=254</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the winter there are many casualties of weather…usually elder adults. A simple thing like a sleeping bag that is good down to 15 degrees can save a life. New warm white socks can prevent immersion foot; a terrible disorder that affects feet that can never get dry and clumps of flesh peel off and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Us</title>
		<link>https://www.spirit-speak.org/?p=251</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the first couple of years of walking the streets to hand lunches out the folks started to post a person on the street corner to watch for my van. As I drove down Yesler, a cry would go up and by the time I turned the corner, 400 people would be lined up waiting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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