It's been a while since I've written. Really a while. May 12th, in fact. Today is June 25th.
So why haven't I written? I want to tell you since it is so earth shattering for me. Along the way of making a documentary about the homeless, I find myself purchasing My First Home! My first. I have wanted my own home all my life. Well, since my divorce. But I never, ever thought I could afford it. Hell, I'm a jazz singer with a day job. How could I afford to buy a home?
Without boring you with the details I'll just say that back in April I took a look around again, this time at manufactured home, and kaboom I found one I could afford. And this is only because of the housing market. I went into escrow April 14th and I closed May 25th. I was so surprised how everything came together, and so stressed at the same time, that I couldn't write about it. Not until now.
SO, all this to say that it is not lost on me that I've wanted a home, my own home, all my life and only now that I am working with the homeless am I able to buy one.
I can't say it is BECAUSE I am working with the homeless that this all came together for me. I won't go there. But it is certainly thought provoking.
To say I'm grateful is an understatement. While fine tuning the documentary I am still working with the homeless. I serve lunch once a month at Family to Family, a Ventura organization who feeds the hungry and homeless the second Wednesday of every month. I still see them. I still am connected. It is still heartbreaking, particularly the homeless who are mentally ill.
But now every night I do not go home to a rented apartment. I go home to a home that is mine.
Unbelievable.
The process was so overwhelming that I stopped work on the documentary for 3 weeks. But finally this Saturday I am re-shooting my last interview. It is of Dan Flowers, a prior "couch surfer" who is also a guitarist and songwriter. The fist interview I shot was over exposed. My next time in the editing bay is July 7th, where I'll be showing the rough cut 35 minute documentary to the lady who runs Family to Family in the hopes she likes it enough to give me an endorsement.
And on and on I go, round and round wondering how Life really works. I'll never figure it out. But I'm so grateful to be here.
