I began to believe that narrating my efforts with officials, agencies and non profit organizations to get Mark off the streets wasn't making any sense to readers because I couldn't make any sense of it myself. I took notes of phone conversations and in-person interviews. I compiled excerpts from emails. I built a glossary of acronyms and stock phrases. There was nothing left to do but keep writing about the bureaucratic abyss and keep reaching out with conventional methods that so far had proved utterly futile and taken me to the brink of abandoning comportment.
Matt, your experience seems to have many shades of Yosarian, Major Major and other characters from Joesph Heller's "Catch 22." It's amazing how with the financial resources now available to the Portland Metro area with several measures passed, that someone - be it an elected leader, a major government dept head or whoever, take some responsibility to get this in order. Maybe we need anew "Manhousing Project!"
Matt, your experience seems to have many shades of Yosarian, Major Major and other characters from Joesph Heller's "Catch 22." It's amazing how with the financial resources now available to the Portland Metro area with several measures passed, that someone - be it an elected leader, a major government dept head or whoever, take some responsibility to get this in order. Maybe we need anew "Manhousing Project!"
Thanks Don.
Does "alacrity" trump "expediency"?
(Apologies for the verb.)