VOICE Voices of Inspiration, Courage, and Empowerment

12/01/2024

Sharing this series for my buddy Craig. He has really come a long way and I'm super proud of him for putting this series together. He was a peer long before peers were cool. I'd love for us to show him some love. Gregorio Lewis

"You're Crazy" Volume's One, Two and Three features a combined total of 60 radical healing stories, as authored by punk rockers from around the world. All of the writers have experienced trauma, addiction, and mental health struggles. As you read these stories, you will know both the pain and the be...

05/29/2021

Stop the sweeps! All people deserve dignity and respect and the right to rest. Housing not only ends homelessness but

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Stop the Sweeps in Washoe County

12/16/2020

Dr. William Macauley is leading a Writing and Wellbeing Conference with Dr. Cornel West January 3-5, 2021. Please check it out!

Conference website: https://writingandwellbeing.arizona.edu/content/2021-conference

FB page: https://www.facebook.com/wmacauleyjr

Registration: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CZakCYrOImRU0cGWn4q3RW5dHPnGSB1xQQba-E9oUnM/edit?usp=sharing

10/03/2020

Thank you John Grinnell for the composition notebooks and to Franklin D Asbell for your generous donation! The ladies will be receiving these gifts!

09/25/2020

VOICE is back at Our Place (to Grow)! We are in need of notebooks for our budding writers. Please reach out if you are able to donate. Thank you so much.

05/01/2020

If you want to write, write damn it.

We will meet one night a week for four weeks to examine workshop participants’ short stories, nove

11/01/2019

**Attention**
New meeting schedule to be posted soon!
Thanks for your continued support! Keep raising your VOICE!

Quality of life?
Or inequality.
Or, are you mad,
That some got free,
What you worked
so hard to be.
Or..
Do we dare the dream
That you let be,
The dream that we saw,
And lived it,
Reality.
Or maybe could it be,
That yours are not,
But us,
our minds are free.
That we own the will,
And can survive
Another way,
One that is far past...
Your mindsight.
Not that we wanted this,
Not because we stay.
Life is funny like that.
Life's humor doesn't play.
It picks and chooses
Who wins and loses.
Doesn't matter what you say.
Never matters how you play,
Life,
Despite your quality of life preference,
Aside from our disarray,
Life....
always,
always...
has the final say.

09/20/2019

Sorry Folks, due to my recent mishap, I haven't been able to contribute much to the Group. I am on the mend and will be back as soon as physically possible, Wendy will be holding Group this Saturday at 1:00 PM on our usual patch of grass in Brodhead Park. I wish that I could be there, Cosmic hugs all, Pops.

08/24/2019

Poverty and pain
they seem to be
but one in the same.
Faced daily in this game Universe please show me
a brand new highway.
Whispers and voices
about all those choices
we never got to make.
although now
It confuses me how
stability can run over such things.
It's not like when inside
Where some have money to confide,
Or neutralize
such struggles we see.
I wonder why
sometimes our time
passes much slower then them.
If this darkness the rich felt,
Or
If same hand they were delt,
do you think would they fold too?
Same story goes
try on my shoe,
before you shoo
us and our problems away.
Don't tell me you know,
If you only knew
You would give away
all of your own.