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I really do not like Christmas… – Some thoughts on loneliness in holiday season.
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December 24, 2017 by Cláudia

I really do not like Christmas… For this, I have personal as well as societal reasons. I do not want …
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Category: rant | Tags: alienation, alone, consumerism, depression, despair, environment, family, holidays, homeless, homelessness, isolation, loneliness, loss, personal, waste
Why should I care? – 1: Homelessness
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June 29, 2017 by Cláudia

Homelessness has been a major core concern of my life in the last years, I would say probably the biggest …
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Category: Why should I care? | Tags: despair, drug addiction, drugs, homeless, homelessness, humanity, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, money, poverty, social justice, stigma, trauma
My Street- impressions of a place I know so well
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December 1, 2016 by Cláudia

How a street so busy can become so quiet after walking just a few steps is something I could never …
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Category: about me, personal, rambling | Tags: architecture, art, description, diary, fiction, homeless, homelessness, life, myself, observation, random, social justice
The Invisible: what can we do?
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November 20, 2016 by Cláudia

In the last two posts, I’ve been addressing homelessness. I’ve been discussing how we excuse ourselves from caring and how …
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Category: better world | Tags: acting, better society, Community, compassion, equality, homeless, homelessness, human rights, humanity, mental illness, misery, poor, project, thoughts
The Invisible: why we should care.
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November 10, 2016 by Cláudia

When looking at a homeless person, most people will assume their situation is somehow their fault, a result of their …
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Category: better world | Tags: compassion, current issues, depression, homeless, homelessness, human rights, humanity, imagine, inequalities, mental illness, pain, poor, society, utopia
The Invisible: they are right in front of us, but we choose to look away
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November 3, 2016 by Cláudia

The world we live in often strikes us as terribly unfair, sick and cruel. Luckily, a lot of people are …
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Category: better world | Tags: bourgeois, current issues, dystopia, help, homeless, homelessness, human rights, humanity, inequalities, kindness, mental illness, misery, society, utopia
A reconsideration on what is “crazy” and what is “normal”
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June 15, 2015 by Cláudia

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4229308/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 This is a movie about those people, usually homeless, always inadequate, who are completely marginalized from our society. They …
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Category: mental illness, movie, review | Tags: alone, asylum, coexistence, conformism, conspiracy, controversy, conventional, crazy, current issues, depression, dream, equality, exclusion, homeless, illness, learn, loneliness, mental, mental illness, mental institution, nonconformist, normal, open your mind, pára-me de repente o pensamento, peace, poetry, Portugal, respect, revew, social isolation, society, standard, suddenly my thoughts halt, think, think outside the box, unconventional, utopia, wake up!, wisdom