This blog is far from the first one I have ever created using Blogger.com. When I log in, I see all the blogs here that I created, using the same log-in information --- and I notice that one of those blogs pertained to a very desperate time in my life.
I was in Dallas, Texas. I'd traveled there out of a desire to find a solution to a problem that threatened to force me to live in Bellingham, Washington at a homeless shelter known as the Lighthouse Mission.
The overall name for that blog, which I created using public computers at the library because I'd been forced by financial need to put my own laptop computer into a pawn shop, was "A Plea for Help".
Post titles included: "About Homesharing and Housesitting"; "Stuck in Dallas"; "When It Rains, It Pours"; "Life at The Bridge"; "My Current Situation"; "Physical Problems"; "Hospital Woes"; and "Needed: A Base of Operation".
The Bridge, by the way, was the Dallas homeless shelter where I stayed during my visit.
After I returned to Bellingham, with help from Gary Clark of Monolithic Domes (my reason for going to Texas in the first place), I stopped focusing on developing that "A Plea for Help" blog.
I still struggled with homelessness, however, causing me to spend about 9 months of my life in the homeless shelter called The Lighthouse Mission.
I don't know whether or not my attempt to find a woman of my own, via postcard marketing provided by Postcard Mania, will succeed in achieving goals that were largely clarified during that horrible period of homelessness.
However, any woman worthy of a relationship with me will need to understand that I did not emerge unscathed from that time in my life. She may not be able to totally relate, but I hope sincerely that she will understand that I will always have psychic scars, to some extent, as a result of that humiliation --- which I believe would have been unnecessary if people calling themselves "Christians" in this town had acted as if they actually believed in the Golden Rule.
Because I have always strongly believed in that Golden Rule, I have always endeavored to live in such a way as to "do unto others" as I would have them to do unto me. That ethical belief of mine is why I would never deliberately harm a woman, or force myself on her.
None of that is to say that I'm a perfect man. In moments of extreme stress, I have sometimes done things out of anger that I later regretted.
Nevertheless, I'm proud to say that my sins of minor violence have been minimal, compared with the sins committed by men who arrogantly believed that women were property with whom they were entitled to act abusively.
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