Rafter 11

18 degree's outside and 10 degree's inside the shed this morning was a painful reminder that winter is barreling down and will probably arrive this week.

I had so much to do today my head was spinning. Trying to get clean anything - sheets, blankets,towels, jeans, came after I had rushed to Lawrence Bros, Harvey's Feed, Nogal and back to Alto.
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3 years ago I tried to beg a local company for a house we called the "Rafter 11 house." It was a tiny house, perhaps built in the 1950's, that had been made into a tack store. It had to have been all of perhaps 700 sq feet - but cute as a button.

Desperate for any home I contacted the company that purchased a large expanse of land the Rafter 11 house was sat on ... and I tried to buy it. The Avalon company intended to build The Avalon Center, an uptown mall with a restaurant and art gallery. It became a no-win situation without cash in hand, and Robert Huckins was refusing to return the money he stole.

But that little house just put a bur under my saddle. If it could be moved I desperately wanted it. I needed any home.. but that house was just adorable. As the years past I quit trying mainly because of circumstances . Some of the Avalon buildings had structural problems due to subsidence, and eventually one by one section closed.

Today I drove by and the Rafter 11 house was gone. I couldn't help but start crying.

The day was simply gorgeous. So beautiful and sunny. It's hard to imagine that in 24 hours I will be singing a different tune, perhaps even with substantial snow.

The storm is supposed to be here by tomorrow evening and continue through Saturday. Getting prepared means the difference between life and death when you are homeless and have no means to get creature comforts.
There has to be someone related to Robert & Sylve Huckins must have some means to reach them, if it be Michael Huckins, Dr.Kenneth Ogilvie ( Diana Huckins? Dominic Huckins? Malcolm Huckins? ) or Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins and get them to return ALL of the money they stole from us so that I can buy a home and get our lives back. I am begging anyone in this family for help.

I don't believe I have EVER witnessed any none violent crime that can be as devastating as stealing someone's home. I am walking in Dorothy McKeevers footsteps, day by day, month by month, year by year.

Liam Griffin, I sat in your law office with two witnesses as you gave me your promise, your guarantee, that our money would be returned before harm came to us.

Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins you were present the day I signed contract with your son. You walked out of the kitchen with Sylve Huckins and your son introduced me to you. He told you that I was the British horse trainer he had told you about, the one he was going to build the home and barn for. Why didn't you say something? There may be a rational and reasonable explanation but I have spent over 3 years, homeless, not understanding it. I understand it even less knowing that though I was a total stranger, both Dorothy McKeever and Sally Canning you KNEW, and you knew what your son had done to them and others.

Dr. Kenneth Ogilvie, I contacted you and simply asked for a reference, not knowing that Robert Huckins was your cousin. Robert Huckins had just stolen over $30,000 from the domestic violence shelter, HEAL, yet everyone was trying to hide it. There was a history of stealing large amounts of money. $65,000 PLUS from Nancy Canning. $89,000 PLUS from Dorothy McKeever, $45,000 from Francis McKinney. The list just goes on and on and on.
Because of Robert Huckins I ended up paying $140,000 to be homeless.. sat in the cold, emotionally, physically and financially broke. In the middle of a recession, with no way to recover the stolen funds.

Today Robert Huckins has his own home...
He also has OUR home.....
He also has a lot of people's money...
And his freedom.

Women are not banks or loan institutions. Women should not be the source of a retirement fund for people who don't want to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Holding women hostage while playing with the judicial system, a horrendous game of cat and mouse extending YEARS, with the victims whose very homes, families and stability are in jeopardy is cruelty, as cruel as a physical beating. It is financial and emotional RAPE. Homelessness is not justice. It is a slow, painful death.
Please, I beg with everything I have within me, please convince Robert Huckins to stop this torture and return the building fund he stole from us so we too, can have a home.

Relevant pages:

http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/shattered-dreams-endless-nightmare.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/paul-harvey-once-reported-if-you-want.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-is-robert-millard-huckins.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/so-where-is-money.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/criminal-defense-attorneys-woes.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/pen-is-mightier-than-sword.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/02/morally-bankrupt.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/06/robert-huckins-legal-plea.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/many-faces-of-abuse.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/shadow-women.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/price-of-crime.html
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”~ Confucius

A Bug On A Windshield

The cold damp nights are getting painfully hard. Last night I couldn't sleep for the physical pain. The excruciating pain in my spine, hips - joints made it impossible for me to rest. Then the migraine and chest pain started. The hours dragged on until I literally passed out right before sunrise. I woke up at 8.30 am feeling like I had been beaten within an inch of my life.Tweet

Another storm is heading our way this week, so our entrance into December is not going to be pleasurable for those of us who are homeless. Already exhausted I am gritting my teeth in fear.

Today turned out pretty nice. The weather was gorgeous - even if just a little chilly. I can't say that it was the most productive day, for I was in so much pain I could barely move. But I managed.

It was awesome news that the Metzgers will now have a home..

‘60 Minutes’: Metzger family getting a place to live

Mon Nov 28 2011 4:47 PM

Now Arielle, 15, and Austin, 13, will have a place to live, WKMG-Channel 6 reported tonight.

The Metzgers, whose mother died when they were young, have lived for five months in a truck with their dad. Tom Metzger is an unemployed carpenter. Yet the children impressed a national TV audience with their resilience and optimism.

Where will the Metzgers land? “They’ve been offered several places to live. It’s overwhelming. They’re trying to figure out where to go,” said Beth Davalos, coordinator for the Families in Transition Program for Seminole County Public Schools. People have offered to pay the family’s rent or let them move in, Davalos said.

Arielle told WKMG that before the “60 Minutes” report, “I felt like a bug on a windshield. You know, just like everybody else, just out there to be seen. But now that you’re spotted, spotted on the windshield, you just kinda feel special.”

WKMG’s Erik von Ancken reported that a woman will take the Metzger children shopping for clothes and their dad has been offered a job by the charity Clean the World. Mr. Metzger is weighing his options, von Ancken added.

He is not rushing on an important decision. “He has to think about his children,” Davalos said.

From emails I’ve received, I know that Metzger has received several job offers. Davalos said the family has to look at all their emails from the past few days.

You can reach the Metzgers through Arielle’s website, www.greenstreak.info.

Pelley offered a first report on Central Florida homeless in March. How was last night’s report going over?

Kevin Tedesco, spokesman for “60 Minutes,” said: “In less than 24 hours, it has moved many more people to respond than the segment on homelessness that Scott did last season. We know this because Beth Davalos has told us she has received more inquiries. We, too, here at CBS News received a stronger response on the phone line and online.”

It's shocking when any human being describes their self worth as a "bug on a windshield" let alone a teenager. But it's an accurate statement... painfully accurate.There has to be someone related to Robert & Sylve Huckins must have some means to reach them, if it be Michael Huckins, Dr.Kenneth Ogilvie ( Diana Huckins? Dominic Huckins? Malcolm Huckins? ) or Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins and get them to return ALL of the money they stole from us so that I can buy a home and get our lives back. I am begging anyone in this family for help.

I don't believe I have EVER witnessed any none violent crime that can be as devastating as stealing someone's home. I am walking in Dorothy McKeevers footsteps, day by day, month by month, year by year.

Liam Griffin, I sat in your law office with two witnesses as you gave me your promise, your guarantee, that our money would be returned before harm came to us.

Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins you were present the day I signed contract with your son. You walked out of the kitchen with Sylve Huckins and your son introduced me to you. He told you that I was the British horse trainer he had told you about, the one he was going to build the home and barn for. Why didn't you say something? There may be a rational and reasonable explanation but I have spent over 3 years, homeless, not understanding it. I understand it even less knowing that though I was a total stranger, both Dorothy McKeever and Sally Canning you KNEW, and you knew what your son had done to them and others.

Dr. Kenneth Ogilvie, I contacted you and simply asked for a reference, not knowing that Robert Huckins was your cousin. Robert Huckins had just stolen over $30,000 from the domestic violence shelter, HEAL, yet everyone was trying to hide it. There was a history of stealing large amounts of money. $65,000 PLUS from Nancy Canning. $89,000 PLUS from Dorothy McKeever, $45,000 from Francis McKinney. The list just goes on and on and on.
Because of Robert Huckins I ended up paying $140,000 to be homeless.. sat in the cold, emotionally, physically and financially broke. In the middle of a recession, with no way to recover the stolen funds.

Today Robert Huckins has his own home...
He also has OUR home.....
He also has a lot of people's money...
And his freedom.

Women are not banks or loan institutions. Women should not be the source of a retirement fund for people who don't want to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Holding women hostage while playing with the judicial system, a horrendous game of cat and mouse extending YEARS, with the victims whose very homes, families and stability are in jeopardy is cruelty, as cruel as a physical beating. It is financial and emotional RAPE. Homelessness is not justice. It is a slow, painful death.
Please, I beg with everything I have within me, please convince Robert Huckins to stop this torture and return the building fund he stole from us so we too, can have a home.

Relevant pages:

http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/shattered-dreams-endless-nightmare.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/paul-harvey-once-reported-if-you-want.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-is-robert-millard-huckins.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/so-where-is-money.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/criminal-defense-attorneys-woes.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/pen-is-mightier-than-sword.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/02/morally-bankrupt.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/06/robert-huckins-legal-plea.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/many-faces-of-abuse.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/shadow-women.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/price-of-crime.html
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” ~ Confucius

Take Me Home Country Road..

This would have been a fabulous day if I could only get my body to function well enough to do what needed to be done. I had to pick up my grandson and take him to work with me.

The good thing was that I had scheduled a lot of work that demanded driving to Capitan, Nogal and Ruidoso. To a 3 yr old that is a "road trip."

And the temperature went into the higher 60's. Simply beautiful weather. But still I shivered with cold.
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It was a hectic day. Jax had to go to Jan to be clipped and groomed. I had hay to haul, a bank trip to make for my boss and so much more to do so from 7.30 am until 6.30 pm I wasn't out of the truck for more than an hour at a time.

Driving back to the shed in the dark I could smell fireplaces burning and see warm lights in home windows all around me ~ and I so desperately wanted to go home. To the comfort of my own home instead of a dirty, cold, garden shed.

What an absolutely wonderful, and painfully true, article by Paul Tripp.

Anger Is a Calling

The prophet Micah writes, "He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8). This passage calls us to righteous anger. Ask yourself, What will cause me to act justly? Is it not righteous indignation at the perversion of justice that causes innocent people to suffer and permits the guilty to go free? What will cause me to respond to others in mercy? Is it not anger at the suffering around you in this broken world? If you want to be part of what God is doing, will you not hate what he hates?

Suffering must not, cannot be okay with us. Injustice must not, cannot be okay with us. The immorality of the culture around us must not, cannot be okay with us. The deceit of the atheistic worldview---the philosophical paradigm of many culture-shaping institutions---must not, cannot be okay with us. Righteous anger should yank us out of selfish passivity. Righteous anger should call us to join God's revolution of grace. It should propel us to do anything we can to lift the load of people's suffering, through the zealous ministry of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and to bring them into the freedom of God's truth.

Call to War

What does this holy anger look like? It is kind and compassionate. It is tender and giving. It is patient and persevering. It will make your heart open and your conscience sensitive. Though you are busy, it will cause you to slow down and pay attention. It will cause you to expand the borders of your concern beyond you and yours. It will cost you money, time, energy, and strength. It will fill your schedule and complicate your life. It will mean sacrifice and suffering. When you're both good and angry, you won't be content with comfort and ease. When you're both good and angry, you won't fill your life so full with meeting your own needs or with realizing your own ministry dreams that you have little time for being God's tool to meet the needs of others.

But all of this requires war. Not war with people or institutions. No, this is an internal war. It is a war of the heart. Sin turns all of us toward ourselves. It can make even those of us in ministry demanding, critical, cold, and self-focused. Sin is self-absorbed and anti-social. So even in ministry, if left to ourselves, kindness, compassion, gentleness, mercy, love, patience, and grace do not come naturally to us. They only come when powerful, transforming grace progressively wins the war for our hearts. Only grace can win the war between God's will and our will, between God's plan and our plan, between God's desire and our desire, and between God's sovereignty and our quest for self-rule. As long as sin still lives in our hearts, this war rages in every situation and location of our lives.

It's hard to admit, but at the level of our hearts, we don't reach out to assist those in need because we simply don't care. Even those in ministry have the capacity to look at the dilemmas of others and not be moved. Rather than serve others in the realities of their struggles, we try to co-opt others into serving our little ministry kingdoms. Does this all seem too negative and harsh to you? I would ask, "How much of your anger in last few weeks had anything whatsoever to do with the kingdom of God?" This question is convicting for me; isn't it for you?

Rescued by Grace

So, if we are ever going to be tools of the gracious anger of a righteous and loving God, we must begin by admitting the coldness and selfishness of our own hearts. We must cry out for the rescue that only his grace can give. We must pray for seeing eyes and willing hearts. We must make strategic decisions to put ourselves where need exists. We must determine to slow down so that when opportunities for mercy present themselves we are not too distracted or too busy.

Most of all, those of us who have been called to represent the character and call of God in local church ministry need to pray that we would be righteously angry. We must pray that a holy zeal for what is right and good would so fill our hearts that the evils greeting us daily would not be okay with us. We must pray that we would be angry in this way until there is no reason to be angry anymore. And we must be vigilant, looking for every opportunity to express the righteous indignation of justice, mercy, wisdom, grace, compassion, patience, perseverance, and love. We must be agitated and restless until his kingdom has finally come and his will is finally being done on earth as it is in heaven. For the sake of God's honor and his kingdom, we must determine to be good and angry at the same time.

It is inevitable: this week you will be angry. Everyone is in some way. When you look back on your anger this week, will you see anger resulting from building your temporary kingdom or seeking God's eternal kingdom? Will anger propel you to be a healer, a restorer, a rescuer, and a reconciler? Or will your anger leave a legacy of fear, hurt, disappointment, and division? God calls you to be good, and he calls you to be angry at the same time. This broken world desperately needs people who will answer his call.

Paul Tripp is the president of Paul Tripp Ministries, a nonprofit organization whose mission statement is "Connecting the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life." Tripp is also professor of pastoral life and care at Redeemer Seminary in Dallas, Texas, and executive director of the Center for Pastoral Life and Care in Fort Worth, Texas. Tripp has written many books on Christian living that are read and distributed internationally. He has been married for many years to Luella, and they have four grown children.

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2011/11/27/anger-is-a-calling/

Someone related to Robert & Sylve Huckins must have some means to reach them, if it be Liam Griffin, Michael Huckins, Dr.Kenneth Ogilvie ( Diana Huckins? Dominic Huckins? Malcolm Huckins? ) or Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins. I, like those victims who came before me, have been dragged through a living hell and I simply beg for your mercy. I can't obtain a home until Robert Huckins returns the money he stole from us that was to buy a home. Had he given the money back when he promised the white collar crime investigators I wouldn't be making this plea today. Had he never stolen any money I wouldn't be making this plea today. But he pushes the abuse and torment to an extent where no alternatives are offered. I am homeless and I want to see my mum and return to my career, so I won't stop asking if I have to ask every single day until I die. Robert Huckins gave no-one an alternative, so I plead with sincerity for your mercy. It cost me $140,000 to have NO home - be homeless - just to satisfy the greed and criminal behavior of Robert Huckins..

Today Robert Huckins has his own home...
He also has OUR home.....
He also has a lot of people's money...
And his freedom.

I have NOTHING but the continual cruelty and torment of being homeless.
Relevant pages:
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/shattered-dreams-endless-nightmare.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/paul-harvey-once-reported-if-you-want.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-is-robert-millard-huckins.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/so-where-is-money.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/criminal-defense-attorneys-woes.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/pen-is-mightier-than-sword.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/02/morally-bankrupt.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/06/robert-huckins-legal-plea.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/many-faces-of-abuse.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/shadow-women.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/price-of-crime.html

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.~Marquis De Vauvenagues.

15 not 55 degree's

It was 15 not 55 degree's during the night, and I have been in excruciating pain all night long. The more I shivered, the more my joints hurt, the more my joints hurt the more I started cramping. A violent migraine beat my head the entire night.
Yet still, I could not stop the uncontrollable shivering. By noon it reached 55 degree's and my body started to function a lot better, yet physically and emotionally I was thoroughly spent by sun-up..
I had to run to Wal-Mart to pick up some supplies, and spoke to an internet friend about homelessness, justice and injustice the entire time I was shopping.

I wish I didn't feel as ill as I do. What I wouldn't give to have my health back.. but four years of homelessness has done more damage than I can ever recover from.
Still, I look around and see homeless vets dying of cancer, young children raised in vehicles... the homeless situation in the United States is a national tragedy. Yet career criminals who steal homes from women cannot give up their homes because such is inhumane.. what utter bloody rot.

Yesterday an opportunity arose to make this blog into a hard bound book, and I think I will do so on the 4th anniversary of homelessness - the 4th anniversary of hiring Robert Huckins.

There has to be someone related to Robert & Sylve Huckins must have some means to reach them, if it be Michael Huckins, Dr.Kenneth Ogilvie ( Diana Huckins? Dominic Huckins? Malcolm Huckins? ) or Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins and get them to return ALL of the money they stole from us so that I can buy a home and get our lives back. I am begging anyone in this family for help.

I don't believe I have EVER witnessed any none violent crime that can be as devastating as stealing someone's home. I am walking in Dorothy McKeevers footsteps, day by day, month by month, year by year.

Liam Griffin, I sat in your law office with two witnesses as you gave me your promise, your guarantee, that Robert Huckins was not going to steal our money and leave me homeless. You personally guaranteed that it would be returned before harm came to us.

Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins you were present the day I signed contract with your son. You walked out of the kitchen with Sylve Huckins and your son introduced me to you. He told you that I was the British horse trainer he had told you about, the one he was going to build the home and barn for. Why didn't you say something? There may be a rational and reasonable explanation but I have spent over 3 years, homeless, not understanding it. I understand it even less knowing that though I was a total stranger, both Dorothy McKeever and Sally Canning you KNEW, and you knew what your son had done to them and others.

Dr. Kenneth Ogilvie, I contacted you and simply asked for a reference, not knowing that Robert Huckins was your cousin. Robert Huckins had just stolen over $30,000 from the domestic violence shelter, HEAL, yet everyone was trying to hide it. There was a history of stealing large amounts of money. $65,000 PLUS from Nancy Canning. $89,000 PLUS from Dorothy McKeever, $45,000 from Francis McKinney. The list just goes on and on and on.
Because of Robert Huckins I ended up paying $140,000 to be homeless.. sat in the cold, emotionally, physically and financially broke. In the middle of a recession, with no way to recover the stolen funds.

Today Robert Huckins has his own home...
He also has OUR home.....
He also has a lot of people's money...
And his freedom.

Women are not banks or loan institutions. Women should not be the source of a retirement fund for people who don't want to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Holding women hostage while playing with the judicial system, a horrendous game of cat and mouse extending YEARS, with the victims whose very homes, families and stability are in jeopardy is cruelty, as cruel as a physical beating. It is financial and emotional RAPE. Homelessness is not justice. It is a slow, painful death.
Please, I beg with everything I have within me, please convince Robert Huckins to stop this torture and return the building fund he stole from us so we too, can have a home.

Relevant pages:

http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/shattered-dreams-endless-nightmare.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/paul-harvey-once-reported-if-you-want.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-is-robert-millard-huckins.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/so-where-is-money.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/criminal-defense-attorneys-woes.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/pen-is-mightier-than-sword.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/02/morally-bankrupt.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/06/robert-huckins-legal-plea.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/many-faces-of-abuse.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/shadow-women.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/price-of-crime.html
The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is, The thing that organizes him and feeds him; the thing that keeps him going in the face of untoward circumstances; the thing that gives him resistance.~Hugh Stevenson Tigner

Here Comes The Snow

To call this day "cold" is a slight understatement. It didn't start snowing fast or heavy, and thankfully the high winds have gone away, but this was a frigid day. A bitter cold that cut right to the bone. Nothing I could do would make me warm.
I postponed my scheduled drive to Nogal fearing that the trailer wouldn't be quite as safe in these weather conditions. Yet by noon the sun appeared and melted the snow, then it became overcast, then the sun appeared again and we went back and forth with teasing, then threatening weather. But it remained in the 30's and I stayed frozen solid all day.

It's very depressing when you can't get warm. The comfort of home is somewhere on another planet where the "worthy" people are. Just as I was ready to sit and sob heartbroken, someone sent an article about the homeless children across this nation living in vehicles, and my heart simply sank in despair for these poor kids.

More homeless kids now living in cars

By Scott Pelley
November 25, 2011 7:15 PM
(CBS News)

It's shocking to think that in this land of plenty, 17 million American children are living in poverty. That's nearly one in four.
For "60 Minutes" this Sunday, Scott Pelley went to Central Florida, where the homeless shelters have filled up, and a lot of children are living in cars or trucks.
A truck is the home of the Metzger family: Arielle, 15, and her brother Austin, 13. Their mother died when they were very young. Their dad, Tom, is a carpenter who's been looking for work since Florida's construction industry collapsed. When foreclosure took their house, he bought the truck with his last thousand dollars.
Living in their truck for the last five months has been "an adventure," Arielle says.
"Yeah, it's not really that much an embarrassment. I mean, it's only life. You do what you need to do, right?" Arielle asks.

The Metzgers blend in with more than 1,100 homeless students in the Seminole County schools. At Casselberry School, we met fifteen students who'd been living in cars.
"Well, I worried that someone would just break in and steal my mom's purse," said Jade Wiley.
Jade Wiley is eight years old. She spent three weeks living in her car.
"I thought I was going to be stuck in the car," Jade said, adding that "a nice lady named Beth," gave them money to get into a home.

Beth Davalos said she just delivered help provided by the community.
Beth Davalos runs programs for homeless kids in the Seminole schools. She helps find temporary shelter, but it's tough. Of all the homeless families in Florida, two thirds are living on the street.
"People are running out of resources. The unemployment runs out. Their savings run out, and before you know it, they find themselves living in their car because they ran out of all options," Davalos said.

The kids we met, like the Metzgers, clean up in gas stations or YMCAs, keep up appearances by day, and search for safety by night.
"Every time I see like a teenager or any other kid fighting with their parents or arguing with them, and like not doing what they 're told it really hurts me. Because they could be in my shoes. And of course I don't want them to be in my shoes. But they need to learn to appreciate what they have and who they have in their life. Because it may be the last day they might have it," Arielle Metzger said.

Arielle and her brother Austin spend their days in the city library. The say education is their way out. Arielle plans to be a lawyer.
The full story on homeless children will be Sunday night on "60 Minutes."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57331399/more-homeless-kids-now-living-in-cars/

Homelessness is simply painful. It strips away your identity, self worth, hope... it chips away at your heart, your soul, your very being.

Why are we allowing so many human beings to be dragged through a living hell, especially older citizens and children?

What is Home?

Alan Graham, President of Mobile Loaves and Fishes

What is home? What does it mean to be at home? What is it that homeless people do not have that renders them homeless? And how would the jet-setting global consumer, the postmodern nomad, recognize home if she ever found one? We offer eight characteristics of home, as outlined in Beyond Homelessness.

1. First, home is a place of permanence. To be “at home” somewhere is more than simply having a place to stay.
2. Second, a home is a dwelling place. A home is not just a place of permanence, for home is not the same as house.
3. Third, home is a storied place. A house becomes a home when it is transformed by memory-shaped meaning into a place of identity, connectedness, order and care.
4. Fourth, home is a safe resting place. In contrast to a war zone, a site of danger and fear, home is a refuge, an asylum of safety and security. Home is where one can be relaxed and at ease rather than tense and anxious.
5. Fifth, home is a place of hospitality. At home, we take family in; ideally, we also welcome the stranger because we are at ease, without fear.
6. Sixth, home is a place of embodied inhabitation. We not only shape a place according to our own home-making ways, but we are shaped by the places we inhabit. Kimberly Dovey observes: “We not only give a sense of identity to the place we call home, but we also draw our identity from the place.”
7. Seventh, home is a place of orientation. From home our world is made meaningful. Away from home we become homesick.
8. Eighth and last, home is a place of affiliation and belonging. Think of the resonances of home team, hometown, and homeland. Home is where we find our place and gain our identity.
9. http://www.hhweekaustin.com/blog/blog/65-what-is-home
   

There has to be someone related to Robert & Sylve Huckins must have some means to reach them, if it be Michael Huckins, Dr.Kenneth Ogilvie ( Diana Huckins? Dominic Huckins? Malcolm Huckins? ) or Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins and get them to return ALL of the money they stole from us so that I can buy a home and get our lives back. I am begging anyone in this family for help.

I don't believe I have EVER witnessed any none violent crime that can be as devastating as stealing someone's home. I am walking in Dorothy McKeevers footsteps, day by day, month by month, year by year.

Liam Griffin, I sat in your law office with two witnesses as you gave me your promise, your guarantee, that our money would be returned before harm came to us.

Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins you were present the day I signed contract with your son. You walked out of the kitchen with Sylve Huckins and your son introduced me to you. He told you that I was the British horse trainer he had told you about, the one he was going to build the home and barn for. Why didn't you say something? There may be a rational and reasonable explanation but I have spent over 3 years, homeless, not understanding it. I understand it even less knowing that though I was a total stranger, both Dorothy McKeever and Sally Canning you KNEW, and you knew what your son had done to them and others.

Dr. Kenneth Ogilvie, I contacted you and simply asked for a reference, not knowing that Robert Huckins was your cousin. Robert Huckins had just stolen over $30,000 from the domestic violence shelter, HEAL, yet everyone was trying to hide it. There was a history of stealing large amounts of money. $65,000 PLUS from Nancy Canning. $89,000 PLUS from Dorothy McKeever, $45,000 from Francis McKinney. The list just goes on and on and on.
Because of Robert Huckins I ended up paying $140,000 to be homeless.. sat in the cold, emotionally, physically and financially broke. In the middle of a recession, with no way to recover the stolen funds.

Today Robert Huckins has his own home...
He also has OUR home.....
He also has a lot of people's money...
And his freedom.

Women are not banks or loan institutions. Women should not be the source of a retirement fund for people who don't want to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Holding women hostage while playing with the judicial system, a horrendous game of cat and mouse extending YEARS, with the victims whose very homes, families and stability are in jeopardy is cruelty, as cruel as a physical beating. It is financial and emotional RAPE. Homelessness is not justice. It is a slow, painful death.
Please, I beg with everything I have within me, please convince Robert Huckins to stop this torture and return the building fund he stole from us so we too, can have a home.

Relevant pages:

http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/shattered-dreams-endless-nightmare.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/paul-harvey-once-reported-if-you-want.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-is-robert-millard-huckins.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/so-where-is-money.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/criminal-defense-attorneys-woes.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/pen-is-mightier-than-sword.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/02/morally-bankrupt.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/06/robert-huckins-legal-plea.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/many-faces-of-abuse.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/shadow-women.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/price-of-crime.html
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. ~ Leo Rosten

Black Friday

It was so much warmer this morning, in the upper 30's quickly moving into the 40's that I was delighted, but it didn't stay long. Before noon the snow started, then the snow turned to rain. And by late afternoon the high winds accompanied the rain.
This has really been a fairly miserable day but that didn't stop me from working. I just didn't work very fast and kept my eye on the storm coming over the Sierra Blanca.

Earlier today I was notified of a television documentary being produced in Europe about ex-pats who have suffered adversity in other nations and I contacted them straight away. I don't know that having your home stolen and being left homeless for years is called "adversity"... but I think this situation may qualify for some serious consideration.

WE DO WANT LIGHT AND SHADE!! How has it affected your life, relationships etc? Where is paradise for you? Love to hear more about your situation and any plans or ideas you have up your sleeve to triumph over adversity..We'd love to hear from you at this stage, whatever your story.

Seeing as I cannot afford two homes I don't have much up my sleeve, and unless something happens I'm going to continue in this awful mess. So I am praying that the television producer will accept my offer to profile this situation for their documentary.

By 7 pm tonight that cold wind was whipping this shed something awful, coming in through every crack and crevice. At 8 pm the electricity went out and didn't come back on until after 9 pm - by which time I had a lousy migraine brewing. It is supposed to get very cold tonight and my mind is trying to figure out how cold it will be, and how I will manage to stay warm.... and how the 7 million homeless people in America who don't have a truck to get into will survive this night.

There has to be someone related to Robert & Sylve Huckins must have some means to reach them, if it be Michael Huckins, Dr.Kenneth Ogilvie ( Diana Huckins? Dominic Huckins? Malcolm Huckins? ) or Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins and get them to return ALL of the money they stole from us so that I can buy a home and get our lives back. I am begging anyone in this family for help.

I don't believe I have EVER witnessed any none violent crime that can be as devastating as stealing someone's home. I am walking in Dorothy McKeevers footsteps, day by day, month by month, year by year.

Liam Griffin, I sat in your law office with two witnesses as you gave me your promise, your guarantee, that our money would be returned before harm came to us.

Patricia Ogilvie-Huckins you were present the day I signed contract with your son. You walked out of the kitchen with Sylve Huckins and your son introduced me to you. He told you that I was the British horse trainer he had told you about, the one he was going to build the home and barn for. Why didn't you say something? There may be a rational and reasonable explanation but I have spent over 3 years, homeless, not understanding it. I understand it even less knowing that though I was a total stranger, both Dorothy McKeever and Sally Canning you KNEW, and you knew what your son had done to them and others.

Dr. Kenneth Ogilvie, I contacted you and simply asked for a reference, not knowing that Robert Huckins was your cousin. Robert Huckins had just stolen over $30,000 from the domestic violence shelter, HEAL, yet everyone was trying to hide it. There was a history of stealing large amounts of money. $65,000 PLUS from Nancy Canning. $89,000 PLUS from Dorothy McKeever, $45,000 from Francis McKinney. The list just goes on and on and on.
Because of Robert Huckins I ended up paying $140,000 to be homeless.. sat in the cold, emotionally, physically and financially broke. In the middle of a recession, with no way to recover the stolen funds.

Today Robert Huckins has his own home...
He also has OUR home.....
He also has a lot of people's money...
And his freedom.

Women are not banks or loan institutions. Women should not be the source of a retirement fund for people who don't want to do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Holding women hostage while playing with the judicial system, a horrendous game of cat and mouse extending YEARS, with the victims whose very homes, families and stability are in jeopardy is cruelty, as cruel as a physical beating. It is financial and emotional RAPE. Homelessness is not justice. It is a slow, painful death.
Please, I beg with everything I have within me, please convince Robert Huckins to stop this torture and return the building fund he stole from us so we too, can have a home.

Relevant pages:

http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/shattered-dreams-endless-nightmare.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/paul-harvey-once-reported-if-you-want.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-is-robert-millard-huckins.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/so-where-is-money.html
http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/criminal-defense-attorneys-woes.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2010/06/pen-is-mightier-than-sword.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/02/morally-bankrupt.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/06/robert-huckins-legal-plea.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/many-faces-of-abuse.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/shadow-women.html http://roberthuckinsvictim.blogspot.com/2011/07/price-of-crime.html
Men who for truth and honor's sake, Stand fast and suffer long.Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others fly...They build a nation's pillars deep. And lift them to the sky ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.