Mental Health Association of Portland board member Jason Renaud picks apart the recent Department of Justice recommendations for the Portland Police Bureau on the KBOO Evening News – 9/14/2012.
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TO: JASON RENAUD, MHAP
FROM: Martha Kimble, martha7kimble@yahoo.com, 503-227-7773
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TO: Peter Paulson apartments, mark amerman…
do you accept market rate lease, in place of section 8 based lease, yes?
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TO…peter paulson apts mark amerman sacred heart villa apts joe muller; home forward linda dowden farina samad; aging & disability services denise osborn jean waterman jenny rosenbaum; nw pilot project rebecca childs; royal palm hotel tony flowers shannon singleton; fmrich@ohsu.edu jordan roth emily jacobson tara oconnor sheven thorson joel simons; dr. multnumah county health clinic dr bill; amanda fritz; aa judy wallace jody beaman;
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130313 Wednesday…hello…today i surrender vacate sacrifice my 1994+ section 8 tenant-based voucher, and also, my peter paulson apartments upcoming section 8 tenant-based voucher lease (see letter below)…
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Date: March 13, 2013
To: Tony Flowers
Royal Palm Hotel, 310 NW Flanders Street, Portland, OR 97209
From: Martha Kimble
c/o Towne Storage, 17 SW Third Avenue, Portland, OR 97214
503-227-7773
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Yesterday, I meant to ask you, would Royal Palm Hotel be an interim housing option for me, if I let go of Section 8 tenant-based voucher housing. What would your answer to this question have been, yesterday?
Yesterday, I signed 30-day notice to vacate apartment at Sacred Heart Villa. Today, I will surrender vacate, both Peter Paulson apartment (Section 8 based upcoming move-in), and my 1994+ Section 8 tenant-based voucher.
After I left you yesterday, I realized, I didn’t represent AA Big Book’s primary principle requirement, rigorous honesty, with myself, with you, when I told you I stand with my choice to sign Peter Paulson apartments/Section 8 lease. These words were not true, in me. The words were true in others, not in me.
Rigorous honesty words would be, I’d rather choose live at Royal Palm. If I moved to Royal Palm, I would feel I was choosing movement and life, instead of likely choosing to continue with sound and vibration effects blockage, like the blockage of 120311+, to now, (1) 120311+ with St. James Apartments/GSL Property Management, then (2) 120824+ with Sacred Heart Villa/Cascade Property Management Company, then (3) 120311+, also, with 1994+ Section 8 tenant-based voucher, like 120311+ internal and external blockage for possibly the third apartment in a row with sound and vibration effects, that block movement and life.
Yesterday, the biggest part of my decision, to go ahead and sign Peter Paulson apartments lease, was based in me keeping very clear in thought every day, decide, up front, I can and will sign 30-day notice, any day, without waiting to end of lease, if sound and vibration effects, internally and externally, continue to block movement and life, like they have blocked movement and life, 120311+ to now.
Years 1994-2011, low income housing programs (1994-2002 @ HAP Hollywood East, 2002-2012 @ St James, 2012-2013 @ Sacred Heart Villa (all very good apartments)) helped me learn ways to see blockage, ways to see movement, ways to choose movement and life.
Today, one full year (120311+) of blocked movement and life, with sound and vibration effects internally and externally still with me, with effects growing more and more extreme january 2013 to now, effects very much ever increasing in effect, with no clear housing support as backup, today, I come back to what my own intuition says to me, all along.
When I get present and still, and listen to it, my intuition says, quit holding on to any something or nothing that busy busy tells you, that busy busy messages you, to go away; instead, trust movement and life, a little, enough, to let go, get moving, do at least one regular form of selfless service, do next thing, see what happens.
Today, I also choose let go of what ohsu doctors (June 2012+, 22 visits, thus far) will or won’t agree to do, with my want desire for full body head to pelvis ct scans. I still want to do utube video street theater love songs about this; perhaps some md somewhere will see video, email agree to prescribe full body cd scans, agree to name other tests procedures that might show foreign materials now present; perhaps someone in similar sound and vibration effects will see video and get moving more easily.
If I include big poster, at utube video street theater, its words will be more impersonal than personal, poster will read something like this, “TO: mds worldwide, please, help prescribe full body head to pelvis cd scans of my body, help make visible all foreign material now present in my body, please name other tests procedures that might help show foreign materials present in my body, please help me to, get up out of 120311+ one full year of blockage, get back into movement and life, instead of help me be tipped and toppled by continuous increase of sound and vibration effects.” Simple sign, simple boom box, simple sing along songs of love.
I don’t expect to gain any good mention, good press, out of these decisions.
If all goes well enough with any of these decisions, then my engagement with movement and life can grow bigger than what it’s been 120311+ this last one full year.
If all goes well enough, then , AA & Artist’s Way comic book journal making weekly outreach group can begin again. I should have shown you the flyer for this.
Thank you, Tony Flowers. Talking with you helped me keep moving.
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Martha Kimble