Mrs Lodge's Library. Public Library Portraits of California's Homeless. On a recent visit to the Sacramento library, the high number of homeless patrons I saw there surprised me.
Seeing them in that quiet space, consumed by traditional media, I was struck by the difference between them and most of society with its 24/7 connection to streaming digital media. I began this project to take myself out of my own patterns and habits, to change my perspective, to observe, to listen, to understand, and to share this place of quiet. I met a woman, homeless, seated at a desk in the “quiet zone” on the fourth floor.
She was looking thoughtfully out the library window and writing in her journal. She had a heavy volume on nursing with her. Being homeless often means living off the mainstream grid, unplugged from the Internet, email, and streaming media. Jeffrey Matulich was looking for books by the author Henry Miller when he discovered the work of Kurt Vonnegut. In 2010 the federal government set forth an ambitious goal to end chronic homelessness by 2015. On the go?
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Transparency. Write, read and share! The neverending reference interview of life. My OTHER Super Fun Project!! The Story Sailboat. In case you don’t know, my other passion besides libraries is sailing.
As part of that passion I’ve always wanted to get paid for it like I do for libraries. Isn’t it fantastic to get paid for what you love doing? Anyway, in order to make that happen I need to get my Captain’s license and have a business to do my captaining from. So, about 4 years ago Joey Elle and I put together the beginnings of a non-profit. Unfortunately, life got in the way and I didn’t have access to a lot of the resources I needed to finalize it.
This non-library (but still kinda librarianish) sailing project is being blogged about on its own website but I thought I’d re-post this introductory one here in case anyone is interested in following that blog and our sailing adventures. The Story Sailboat is an epic project to travel the world by sailboat collecting the stories of coastal people and relaying them to the world while providing literacy training to the local people. Joey Elle Patrick Sweeney Like this: Metis Home.