Hulloo, Shakers far and near, I address myself particularly to those among us who are living in Portland (the West Coast one, in OR).
For the last four months, a friend of mine (I'll call her A) has been staying with me; she came to Canada from the US to be with her partner, but the partner turned out to have some interpersonal issues which made the relationship unsafe for her. She stayed in a shelter a bit, and then moved into my library/guestroom. She's got to go back to the US now, and has chosen Portland as her destination (she's from New England). As you might expect in the situation, she's not over-blessed with the dinero at the moment, for reasons I won't go into in a public post. Suffice to say, she's been working, but not at such a rate as to be able to save much.
She's already gotten onto the waiting list for a homeless shelter there, but it'll be anywhere from a few weeks to a couple of months before the spot comes open (really, it should be a couple of weeks, based on the way the list has moved so far, but I want to be conservative in estimating, if in nothing else in my life).
The help she's requesting is that she needs somewhere to lay her head of an evening, as a bridge between arrival and getting through the waiting list at the shelter. She expects to find work fairly quickly after arrival, because she has a skillset which is generally in-demand all over the continent.
If anyone knows of where A might find shelter in this bridge period until the shelter spot opens up, you'd have my deep gratitude.
I can vouch for her personally; I've known her online and sometimes in person for several years, and found her to be completely trustworthy. Shaker Rikibeth also knows her quite well (for over 20 years, she tells me), as does Shaker differentdrummer (both shared a house with her some years ago) and possibly some others among you (my local friends).
A's a reader here, rather than a commenter, but she's definitely our kind of people. I can be reached at this e-mail, if you would like to respond privately to me.
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