News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Perspective is everything, and lived experience of hard things is one way to gain it. Another way is through guided simulation. As someone who has lived in poverty my entire adult life and is currently pushing 40, I want to share a great resource for you that I would love to see brought to the Sisters community next. How would you manage living in poverty for a month? On May 20, Oasis Village in Redmond invites you to spend a few hours finding out. This poverty simulation will be held from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Mountain... Full story
I do not use the term homeless anymore. After a conversation with another woman who was experiencing houselessness about three years ago, she said “I wish people would stop calling us homeless. I know it doesn’t fit the idea others have of home, but my tent is my home.” The respectful way to describe this group is to say people experiencing houselessness, because they are people first and foremost, and words matter. I had never been tent camping before I moved to Oregon and spent seven months in one with my family, including... Full story
