Tallest building in Portland(Photo)
Hi, Sue. May be getting a room, tomorrow at 12th and Clay, Downtown. Last room at the Stewart on Broadway and Burnside in February. This room is a fourth floor studio, very nice. View is the Grace Bible Church and steeple across Clay to the North. 2 windows! Whoopy! Laundry is ten steps from door one way, elevator, 10 steps the other way, mailboxes in the lobby. NW Pilot Project(helps 55+ with housing), helped get the room. Guess I was getting tired of the tree. Not really. Fall is around the corner. Don't want to leave for warmer climes, yet. Maybe do another year in Portland, then Alaska, come May, 2010.
Bill sits in the 12th and Glisan Starbucks with a cup of coffee, along the window facing Glisan. He watches the one-way traffic go West. Music decends from the speakers high on the 14-foot walls. 50's music. Bill plans to call Cathy and ask for a Payee to manage his money. Something he's been poor at the last 4 weeks. Bill thought all day, yesterday he'd like to run into Ananda at Magic Garden, and he did, at last, at 9:45PM. He watched her dance 2 sets and left. He couldn't miss the last train home to his pillar. The truck and trailer is still parked in his forest, night 3.
"Are you from Portland?", the minister asks Bill. They are the only passengers on the 19. He talks minister-speak to the driver and briefly notices Bill, as Bill walks up to ask the driver, if there is a stop at Yamhill, he's headed to breakfast at Carls.
Bill sits in Carls Junior eating a steak and eggs burrito. 25 July 2009. Saturday. It's good. It may be all Bill eats today. St Fransis closed. He may eat at Share House in Vancouver at 3:30. He's going to pay Cash 'n' Go $100 from his IRS check. He bought a pair of shoes and visited the prettiest girl he's ever seen at Magic Garden. He may be living 3 floors above Blockbuster Video on 12th and Clay, come, next week. Sia is surprised and exstatic Bill gets approved at Hamilton West Apartments. He's maintaqined a good rent record, except for the Sinclair Street apartment, which they may have overlooked.
So far, Pilot Project's been good to Bill. And JOIN, showers, mailbox, locker, understanding. Portland's been good with meals and inexpencive transportation. Bill owes a lot of money from the loans fiasco. The drug Abilify derailed the payment schedule by putting him to sleep. He would have been fine.
He doesn't know whether to go to a Kingdom Hall or a church, tomorrow. He cannot perform among Jehovah's Witnesses and Faith Center, only asks he join the men's group, if that. But it's "false religion, Babylon the Great", by the JW estimation and interpretation of Scripture. "You're attracted to the social aspect and the structure.", Cathy evaluates Bill's responce to, "What do you get out of going to the Kingdom Hall?"
