Hippie Wild and free Quilt

Hippie Wild and free Quilt

My time homeless was spent in such rural sections, keeping away from the main cities and mostly on the outskirts of a large town and the nearby smaller villages. (It was the area I’d grown up around, and sticking to familiar territory made living homeless a lot easier than trying to make a go of it in some unknown city, especially when with a car I’d have to pay for parking somehow.) Often I would spend the night parked at a truck stop just off the Hippie Wild and free Quilt since it’s one of the few places you can safely sleep in your vehicle without the cops knocking on your windshield for a “wellness check” and threatening to cite you for loitering. (I get the cops are just doing their job, but nope, not something wanted to have happen a second time, especially when Max’s loud barking and attempt to protect me nearly got him shot the first time.) Things can get plenty creepy as well after the sun goes down and the place is filled with parked rigs, occupied by divers in various states of sobriety.

That’s not as rare as people make it out to be. I’ve met dozens, hundreds even, that are of average-ish intellect in very high paying fields. Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians, Technologists, you name it. I’ve met the same number of poor people scraping by. But what’s the difference? Well, getting raised and taught the path, the actual path, not just “oh, just go to college,” but the real path to success. How do you actually get through school? What if you’re in a neighborhood where you’re getting jumped and your book bag is stolen? How does financial aid work, since your parents aren’t paying for shit? How do you get the help you need since your parents aren’t educated? How do you get away from the gang of the only people who protected you long enough to go to school? The most shocking thing I’ve found from Hippie Wild and free Quilt to financial well-being is that the people on either side aren’t much different. Poor people aren’t lazier, stupider, nothing. Just, nobody taught them how to succeed, and you can’t know what you don’t know without learning it.

Hippie Wild and free Quilt, Hoodie, Sweater, Vneck, Unisex and T-shirt

On and on I made excuses. On and on I continued to ‘feel’ happy and in love, but all the while I continued to ‘think’ of how stupid he was, and how these two things can’t possibly be a good combination. When I found out he was using cocaine, I thought it was a blessing in disguise. I thought, ‘Now is my chance! I can end this once and for all, and blame it on the drug use.” It was a very bittersweet discovery.But then, he wanted to get help for it, and asked me to go with him to talk to a Hippie Wild and free Quilt. Sitting there, in that little office, next to him… I will never forget the question he was asked, how he answered it, and how it brought tears to my eyes, and pulled me right back into the black hole of loving someone who didn’t even know how many days there were in a year, or what day Christmas is on. The counselor asked him, “How do you feel when you take cocaine?’ He said, “I feel smart. I feel like, for once, I know what’s going on.” Ohhhhh my GOD. Hearing him say those words – realizing for the first time that he had a self-awareness about his ‘low intelligence’ – and that he felt bad about it. Wow. It killed me. I wanted to hug him and protect him and take care of him like he was my own child.

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I in a town named after a type of stone and my home sits on a corner. Theres a older than I female neighbor who i only spoke to briefly once and again while pulling some weeds at the fence and she told me that how she was so glad to know i loved animals because the Hippie Wild and free Quilt killed her dog or cat one..so a few weird nuances didnt throw me off as because im “thursdays child” to the hilt and appreciated her quirkiness, and then about a few weeks before xmas my oldest came home from his travels and left his dog with me while he and his lady went up north to begin a seasonal job and i loved every minute of it such a well behave older lab/pit mix so noble headed, anyway when they returned a few weeks later for xmas he invited some friends another couple they knew to come spend xmas with us and we were having the best time can you imagine, though not loud or boisterous nor long into the evenings at all, the couple had a dog too and they knew each other all too well and so this couple has a mini bus and it fit right up in my driveway which was good as we dont have much sidewalk right out front .

It took one year to complete this fiber piece. It’s a large embellished needlepoint and is Hippie Wild and free Quiltd “ Death of Venus.” It’s difficult to see, but every inch contains glass beads, seed beads, sea pearls, bugle beads, sea shells, and metal beads surrounding an array of mostly vintage jewelry parts and found objects. The yarn is a mixture of contemporary and vintage yarn. The piece was created for a juried craft art show on “Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead). The show was juried by the assistant curator of the Salvadore Dali Museum. I’m proud to say I won Best of Show. The story behind the art: The name of the piece, “The Death of Venus”, is a play off of Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”.