Dear Papa Cane,
I enjoyed reading every word! I dream a world, too! Welcome to
Asbury Park! You left a beautiful place; Columbia!
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "evosap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The following was written by Gil Caldwell. I am posting it for him.
> Gabrielle (I am not Kevin Brown)
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> We moved to Asbury Park to be near our now 3 year old grand daughter.
> She calls me "Papa Cane" because I walk with a cane, the result of
> surgery in 2000. As I sat with great weariness in last night's Zoning
> Board meeting with the Jersey Shore Rescue Mission being the "item" of
> the night, I had what we in the church call an "epiphany moment". I
> had a new vision of an Asbury Park that I had not "seen" before.
>
> Be patient as Asbury Park's "Papa Cane" shares in what I hope will be
> a grandfatherly way.
>
> The negative words spoken about homeless and hungry people, I have
> also heard spoken about Gays, whites, blacks, Hispanics, rich, poor,
> and people-in-between, people on the east side as well as the west
> side. The negatives I hear about homeless and hungry people may be
> descriptive of some of them but not all of them. Rather than being on
> the edge of saying about ourselves in Asbury Park, "We can absorb (a
> lot of some folk) and are unable to live (with some other folk),
> provide your own definitions in each parenthesis, we must now admit to
> ourselves that we are creating a new city that must be inclusive and
> not exclusive.
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