Joyce

Ms Joyce is a great teacher. Here in New Orleans.

She owns the house that I live in, and is host to the camp of hooligans at 126 N. Miro Street, home base of stranded souls who have come to New Orleans to help for free because the government will only spend money paying the National Guard to hold back residents who don't want their homes to be stolen from them.

Ms Joyce is creating a world of possibility, of love, of friendship and growth, and by God's grace I am here in her midst. She says,

"I had to be separated from Fred (her husband) for six years so I could go and learn to be a superwoman. I didn't know I was going to be one, but God kept telling me that I had to be a leader, so I guessed eventually I had to learn how.

There I was in Los Angeles becoming a buddhist. I said to Jesus "well Jesus, I don't mean to leave you behind but you must have put me here for a reason," so I went ahead and became a full buddhist."

"If you have an empty room or a basement, don't wait until them city workers have two thousand dollars to move into a rental, give them some space where they can come here and do the work they want to do.
When this city was being built, you know they didn't have houses built for everyone to live in, they had to share! And they sure as heck didn't have a City Hall (laughter around). The people had to work together.

"The things I'm saying to you are the same things I'd say to Bill Clinton or Hillary, to George Bush, to the rest of the boys living here, the mayor or the heroin guy down the street."


That last thing really hit me. Let me collect myself until I have one single message, and let me carry that single message to every person, low or high, great or small. You don't have to be short or tall, thin or fat, smart or stupid, you don't have to be one way or another, every person in this town or in the next town over, or in Santa Rosa, CA, we all have something to give, and we all have something we need, and somewhere in between we find out how to give and take of those things. If we stand around waiting for the money we think it's worth, we're all going to be standing around in Hell AND High Water, wondering what happened to the Constitution.