It's Been Awhile

By Cliff Harrison

Due to some major illness and other troubles this is one of the most neglected sites in the network. Originally this site was to be the meeting place for ideas and to keep former homeless people connected with the RIVER Organization. It was designed to help them from having a relapse and going back into homelessness, especially on the streets.

By having a support system set up to help them bridge the difficulties, matching volunteers with the needy, to prevent backstepping was the idea. Well, things didn't work out as planned in more ways than one. So, as time goes by what I very well may do is use this site as a facts and fiction site.

The facts part will be ideas describing what the River Street Bridge Club was meant to do had it been successfully started. The fiction part would be telling stories I would create describing cases of what could have been and what should be out there for organizations helping the homeless.

Just getting people off the streets isn't enough, there needs to be a support group to keep them from returning to the streets. That was what River Street Bridge Club was suppose to do.

Homelessness is something of a tragedy in the United States. We have people who could care less about the homeless, and they will never care until they themselves are homeless. And then we have people who want to claim they want to help the homeless, but in reality all they want to do is collect a handsome salary and tell their friends they are helping the homeless as if some high god will come down and place favoritism on them. The truth is, for many of these people, the real God, Jesus Christ, frowns on that kind of stuff.

The RIVER Organization never developed the way I wanted it to. But then, the entire world has been locked into a sort of Twilight Zone economy. Nobody is really doing well. If my writing pays off in the end, then I'll have the funds to fund the RIVER Organization the way I want it to be funded and run. That way the world would see the reality. Until that time comes, I'll let the world see the window of what could be by fiction stories.