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  • 1 week ago | yubanet.com | Tom Durkin

    NEVADA CITY – Are you homeless or formerly homeless? If so, you know what it looks like from the bottom up because everybody was looking down on you – maybe even including yourself. You have stories, real-life experiences – the quiet desperation of having no place to go to the bathroom; resentment at being woken up at 3 a.m. in the morning with a policeman’s flashlight in your face; the gnawing hunger of waiting for that free lunch on Thursday.

  • 2 weeks ago | yubanet.com | Tom Durkin

    Be careful of what you wish for. … You might get it. If I knew how hard it would be to get an alternative housing ordinance passed in Nevada County, I might never have tried. Six years and several months ago, I naively argued to the Nevada County Board of Supervisors that it should be legal to live in trailers and RVs because there is no other housing that homeless and low-income people can find or afford. I know. I’m one of them. My impeccably reasoned argument went nowhere.

  • 2 weeks ago | theunion.com | Tom Durkin

    Be careful of what you wish for. … You might get it. If I knew how hard it would be to get an alternative housing ordinance passed in Nevada County, I might never have tried. Six years and several months ago, I naively argued to the Nevada County Board of Supervisors that it should be legal to live in trailers and RVs because there is no other housing that homeless and low-income people can find or afford. I know. I’m one of them. My impeccably reasoned argument went nowhere.

  • 4 weeks ago | theunion.com | Tom Durkin

    You can see the fire through the trees. Smoke is searing your lungs. The air is filled with the frantic voices of people yelling. Panicked deer, rabbits and other wildlife are running through yards. Wailing sirens are approaching. A helicopter with a water bucket chops through the smoke. The hi-lo, get-out-now! warning from a sheriff’s patrol car is piercing through the racket. A huge DC-10 VLAT (very large air tanker) flies overhead at tree-top level.

  • 1 month ago | theunion.com | Tom Durkin

    “You’re stupid.”“No one will ever love you.”“If you don’t stop crying, I’ll really give you something to cry about.”“I wish you‘d never been born.”“I’ll get you for this.”“You’ll never be as good as your brother.”“Shut up!”“Never tell anybody about this.”This is emotional child abuse — and that’s only part of the spectrum of ways you can seriously hurt a child without actually touching her.

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Tom Durkin
Tom Durkin @tjd69
16 Feb 23

I just published The Eff It Doctrine https://t.co/DBVLxHluOo

Tom Durkin
Tom Durkin @tjd69
30 May 22

5/30/22 Wants https://t.co/1FxrF7mB6S via @YouTube The No Place to Go Video Project asks three questions: What do you need? What do you want? What do you wish? These are the wants. #homeless #homelessness #invisiblepeople #noplacetogo #homelesslivesmatter

Tom Durkin
Tom Durkin @tjd69
23 May 22

1 NPTG NEEDS https://t.co/oVXKdLBGAj via @YouTube 5/23/22 NEEDS The No Place to Go Video Project asks three questions: What do you need? What do you want? What do you wish? This is the Needs compilation of answers. #homeless #invisiblepeople #noplacetogo #homelesslivesmatter