“Tornado Warning! Happy First Night Homeless “ That’s the text I received last night as I was biking my way through Cambridge, MA (Middlesex County). I go homeless and Mother Earth sends Massachusetts a freakin’ TORNADO? Well… it was a pretty intense day for me… maybe I have some undiscovered X-men style powers that finally made their way to the surface? One can hope. After resigning myself to complete soak-dome* and biking my way through torrential downpour, I made my way to my office. The office park with it’s empty parking lot…
What begins as an odd twist on the classic “walks into a bar” joke… …ends with a Paulo Coelho-ian twist. In Coelho’s best-selling book, The Alchemist, an old king tells the main character, “when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” On August 5th, I “came out of the closet” about going homeless and shared my plan with my Facebook network. It was a hard decision. Some friends and confidants had cautioned strongly against it. But it was the right thing to do….