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Diapers for Everyone in 2010!
Can't start the new year fresh without a new project, right?Some (many?) of you might be familiar with the young homeless family that I was helping last year. I'm assuming that most of you know part or all of the story but if not, the link is here. B...
Rest for the weary.
I can't tell you how much I love this picture.***I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw the pillow, the smiley face, the sunset creeping along the wall of the lonely alley, and wondered who it was that left that pillow for some tired soul to rest the...
For the little ones...
These were the beautiful faces I saw today.***I'm so grateful to keep getting my perspective readjusted. Just when I am way too focused on myself (which is frightfully easy, unemployment or no), something comes along that makes me snap to.Today I joi...
Give Cheeks a Chance TONIGHT
Help a Mother Out (helpamotherout.org) is a wonderful cause started by two local moms, Lisa and Rachel, who wanted to make a difference in the lives of mothers. In a very short time, they've been able to donate much needed diapers, toiletries and clo...
Sometimes it takes so little...
...to make a person happy.Sometimes I wonder why it is so hard for those of us who have so much?Meet Chewie, Little Fluff and Patricia.If you are around Polk Street @ California, you might see them on the corner. Give them a dollar or two if you can....
Earth Angel
"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something." ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr."The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the perso...
Three Months Ago Today
Three months ago today, my life changed in a way I never would have expected it to.Three months ago today, a young mother struggling to fight back the tears as people walked past her on their way home (home, to their homes) as she held up a sign writ...
This is the real world.
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,Thank you for cutting this family's welfare check from $683 to $580 a month for a family of four.They don't really need that extra $103 anyway.Not even this little guy.***I just wanted to thank you, dear readers, for your...
The real reason why I signed up for Twitter.
These little guys.***I had to laugh at one of the first emails I got after people could see that I had finally left my judgemental ivory tower and registered with Twitter. It was from my darling little Chipmonkey, asking if I was feeling okay because...
Scenes from a Saturday
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." ~ John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983A creative table made out of a surfboard invites some to catch an indoor wave."If our American way of life fails the child, it fa...
Busy Bee
Yes, more bees. *** I can't help it. It's just so gratifying when you get a good bee shot. They are very difficult models. Plus, I practically have to stick my camera up their little bee bottoms to get these photos. This bee must have been humoring ...
mi causa es su causa
How badly do I want this Matt Diffee t-shirt?Badly.***"There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are the links in the en...
What you helped us do on Mother's Day
Because of YOUR generosity and love and care, K and the kids got to spend all of Mother's Day at the zoo. (We-- meaning all of us-- got them a membership so they can go as often as they like over the next year. The kids LOVE the animals... thank you!...
a sea change
sea changen. A change caused by the sea: "Of his bones are coral made:/Those are pearls that were his eyes:/Nothing of him that doth fade,/But doth suffer a sea change" (Shakespeare).A marked transformation: "The script suffered considerable sea cha...
How are you celebrating Mother's Day?
If you are doing something for Mother's Day, I bet it involves celebrating with a roof over your head...Will I be at City Hall on Friday with my camera taking a sh*tload of photos and finding more families to talk to? Hell YES.Coincidence? Perfect ti...
My Superhero Cape Is Getting Heavy
Guys, listen up. I'm so so incredibly appreciative that people keep picking up K's story and running with it: today again we got shout-outs on SFist and Eye on Blogs AND now I'm BlogHer of the Week at BlogHer (which is huge and I'm really grateful......
San Francisco's Magical Telephone Number and the Angels of "They"
Does anyone know where I can get a pair of these in a size 7?***Once upon a time, there was a little homeless woman with three small beautiful children. As a victim of domestic violence, where ever she turned, people told the mother to call a toll-fr...
My guest post, posted here ;-)
Below is the text of my guest post yesterday for helpamotherout.org.If you haven't been to see their site, they're doing lots of good work for moms and kids in need. Check them out and tell them tangobaby sent you.;-)***Flowers are always a little mo...
Time Out
Door on Haight Street reads Community: All different but all help each other get the fruit from the tree.Ain't that the truth?!***Holy moly. What a week! We got our little story on SFist, Eye on Blogs, KGO News (thank you again, Carolyn Tyler!), we w...
Well, now who do we turn to?
I just had a conversation with Dariush Kayhan of the Department of Homeless Services. You might remember that he was the person from City Hall who was interviewed for the KGO segment last night.I had asked you all to help continue the attention on th...
We got on the news... but we're not done yet
Click on the photo above to go to KGO's site to watch the story...***First of all, I want to give a huge THANK YOU to all of you who continue to care and want K and her family to be safe and protected. It's because of YOU that this story has garnered...
Keep your fingers crossed for us tonight
just saw this the other day... seems fitting, doesn't it?UPDATE: Ugh, I'm sad to report that our news story has been preempted by the Swine Flu cases in Marin county. I just got off the phone with Carolyn Tyler, the reporter. She said the piece looks...
Help and love come in many ways...
"I do not have the funds available right now to be able to give cash, but I sew and quilt and will do or make whatever is needed for her and the babies. I am a single mother with 7 kids and no child support, but I do want to help desperately."***Thi...
Twitter This, Gavin
From yesterday's SFist:"While Gavin Newsom tours California to tout his successes as mayor of San Francisco -- not to mention spending the weekend at the insider-baseball-y Democratic Convention in Sacramento, along with practically every other SF pr...
No day but today
Pretty in pink. Celebrating a special friend's birthday with strawberry, chocolate and mint chip gelato... and a very fancy strawberry cupcake.***Sunday was a day of small triumphs.A wonderful blogger and new friend, J9, made a special trip in from t...
day by day
Kelaya and baby Marcus say hello.***This will be a short update about Kelaya and then I hope to have more of a story to share with you soon.On Thursday night, I spent quite a long time printing out so many incredibly moving and encouraging letters fo...
A veritable tidal wave of love and compassion
Guys, you know I'm really tired when I can't find a photo for a post. ;-)I have been out all day on a photo shoot so I apologize for the late hour.I wanted to tell you that I have been crying all off and on all day because I kept reading your letters...
Kelaya's Story and YOU CAN HELP!
We found her! We found Kelaya and the kids yesterday!Kelaya on the bed with baby Marcus, who turned two months old on Wednesday. Nine year old Dorian and seven year old Kameko watch cartoons in the background. ***Wow, guys, where do I start? First of...
little updates
I want to thank all of you who gave such great advice and suggestions about Kelaya and her family.I just wanted to let you know that me and a few other bloggers are now going to be on the lookout for her, first so we can get more information and find...
please please please let's help her
Please meet Kelaya, Dorian, Kemusa and baby Marcus.***I met this beautiful family on my way home from a photo shoot today. I walked past them, just like the other people on their way home. I admit it. I saw her and sailed on by. I read her sign ($60 ...
