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Muddy Water
Muddy Water: Stories from the Street | Al Tysick
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A lifetime on Canadas streets results in vivid stories ranging from despair to humor to hope. Voices of street people are seldom found in print, yet homelessness, addiction, mental illness, poverty, and other factors are major issues today. As a minister of the United Church of Canada, Rev. Al Tysick deals with the entire range of human experience in this unique volume that helps us to understand street life. Evocative drawings by artist Elfrida Schragen enhance and extend the informal style of the text, weaving art into the varied encounters on the street. The long-detrimental effects of Canadas residential schools highlight why so many street people have Indigenous heritage. The often positive and powerful aspects of that heritage are featured in many stories. This book helps readers to understand why we must free ourselves from every vestige of colonialism, racism, sexism, and any other aspect of institutions that enable inequality, injustice, and poverty. We must move from living in the ego to living for all our citizens.
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This was a very emotional read, written by a man who has walked with the homeless in my city for decades. I can‘t say I fully agree with every word, but the spirit of this book is a heartfelt cry for us to do better, to truly see and love the individuals spending their lives in the margins of our society, and to make life better for them.

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Amen

MaGoose How true. Especially in these days. 1w
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TheQuietQuill Amen 🙏🏻 2w
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