I personally want to thank each and every one of you who participated in the webzine! I could not have accomplished this without yall!

The December 1st Zine features the Atlanta Chapter of the International Lions Club! I am getting new glasses through them and wanted to feature them in this issue!

My feature artists are Eppie aka Paul, Paola from Italy/UK, and Project Squiddy! Be sure to click on their images to check out their websites!

My feature musician is Sweet Corn Grits, and their song is about picking up the pieces after living with domestic violence. They have a great cause and I encourage you to add them as your MySpace friend!

I have no feature writer/poet so I am using one of my pieces, called "Poetically Inclined" Be sure to give me feed back!!

The flash panels you see are from my lovley friends at Zazzle.com! Be sure to check them out! I also have a link to my Zazzle Gallery and if you choose to buy something, all of my profits will go to aid the homeless help organizations and shelters in America! Zazzle is free to join and a great tool to get your artwork out there. You can even sell postage stamps with your art on them!


Also, I encourage you to Digg This Site!! It's on the front page of the zine!

I am accepting submission for writers for the December 15th-April editions and visual artists for the January-April editions!

For Musicians, I am accepting submissions for the February-April editions!!

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One of my MySpace friends, Rhonda, posted this up in a bulleting. I am going to jump on board and try to help out. Anyway here is the post!



Wow Christmas time is right around the corner! It's so hard to believe another year has almost passed! We are getting older (but wiser- I hope) Well as we move into the Holidays - We need to keep in mind how our economy has really affected people. This year has been a really hard year for many people. At this time many people are struggling.. with paying billls, supporting there family, and learning how to just cope.


If you know of a local family (Georgia / Atlanta area ) who is really in need right now, going through a rough time, hardships, and don't know how they are going to make it through these holidays.
Please email me or message me

rhondab@bellsouth.net and give me a little insight of what we could do to help.


Our family as a whole are taking on the responsiblitly of helping a few families this Holiday season. I don't know how many families we can help.. but we will do our best!!

Please repost to help spread the word!!

Thanks & I hope you all have a great Holiday!

XOXO
Rhonda

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When I was ten, my mother and I were living in White, GA in an abandoned trailor with no heat, electricity but we did have water when the pipes weren't frozen. It was right on my birthday that the landlord kicked us out and my mother just decided to drive until we ran out of gas money.

We ended up in Marshal, TX, where a church gave us gas money to get back to Shreveport, LA where there was a homeless shelter. That shelter was the Evergreen House. During our stay, the name changed to The Providence House and the staff made sure that our Christmas was special. In fact, the best Christmases of my childhood were in the shelter because of the kindness of so many people.

The reason I am writing this is because I want to encourage you to volunteer at a local shelter. You may never know the difference you could make in a child's Christmas. Today, the average age of a homeless American is nine years old which means that there are more families with children in shelters, on the streets, or in a situation where they have no home of their own. Many of these will be in shelters across the United States and around the world this Christmas.

Let's do something this year, everyone. Here is a link to a local shelter directory with a map for the US. Click on it and then your state and you can then narrow it down by city.

http://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/

Here is a link to a food bank locator if you would like to donate food or volunteer your time in helping out with food.

http://feedingamerica.org/default.aspx

If you are outside the U.S., which many of you (my lovely myspace friends) are, I encourage you to look up YOUR local shelters in your city and country. I have found a few links on Google, and here they are below:

Britain: http://www.ris.org.uk/
http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Society_and_Culture/Organisations/Homeless/

Switzerland: http://www.viavia.ch/

Canada: Ontario http://www.ottawamission.com/
Ontario http://www.nameres.org/

US and Canada Soup Kitchen Directory
(search by state or province)
http://4homeless.hypermart.net/soup_kitchens.html

Australia: http://www.homeless.org.au/

I am working on putting international links to The Homeless Network, which is a website that I created to help anyone in the US who is about to become homeless or already is homeless find out about shelters, food, medical care, info on homeless statistics, their rights--yes Homeless Americans do have rights you know--and the main objective of THN is to let you know that YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

You can see the current THN at http://thehomelessnetwork.tripod.com

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I feel poetically inclined to spill

My heart onto canvas

In a multicolor dimension

You will never truly

Know me only because

You choose to reject me

You turn down my friendship

Only because I am financially

Useless to your lifestyle

I turn to pen and ink

To display my feelings

Something I cannot tell you

You blind yourself to something real

Your false illusion will break

Into shards of glass around your soul

You will not be able to see the

Multiplicity of unique individuals

Because you will always think

I want you for your money

You let your fear of betrayal

Rue this day

In the end it is you

Who betrayed yourself

Because you chose close your heart

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You know you want me. You know I know you know. So grab it. You gotta message me to get it. When I say me, I don't mean ME personally..I mean this widget I created.


Art4TheHomeless is promoting Homeless Awareness in America with your help!

Gotta message me to get the html

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First and foremost I want to thank each of you who participated in the Art4TH Webzines! Without you, I could not have done this! The zine is used to promote a homeless help organization or shelter, 1-4 visual artists, 1 musician, and 1 literary artists. There are also spots for free advertising--yes FREE ADVERTISING! I am doing this for networking purposes: the more people who participate, then the more who will see not only the homeless help sites but also YOUR stuff. I haven't been posting a line up for the zine, but I am starting now. Here is the December 1st line up:

Visual artists: Paola De Giovanni (SprayGraphic.com), Eppie (myspace), Project Squiddy(Spraygraphic.com)
Musician/band: Sweet Corn Grits
Poet/writer: (none so far message me if you want to participate!)
Ads: (From Zazzle.com) Patricia aka Ratso

If I still don't have a feature writer for this edition, I will either use my own or delete the page for this issue!

Message me if you are interested in participating!

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Things are going great for my mother. I haven't been getting as many hours from my job as I would like, so I am in the process of finding a second job. I want my own place so I can do my own creative thing.

I am working on a project to be entered into the LSU art competition in March. If I get in, I will be going to Baton Rouge for the opening reception. Also, I will post my piece up for sale with all of the proceeds going to a homeless shelter in Baton Rouge. So I am debating with myself on what to do. It has to be on an animal and I love cats. I could also re do my Zulu Frog piece onto a bigger scale as well. I think that would be more of a challenge and am leaning toward that. I love challenges!

There is this guy I like at work, but I don't think he is interested. He knows I like him and all, but hasn't really said anything to me so I will just forget about that. The last thing I need is another relationship anyway. Plus he seems to be one of status and money and I don't need to be distracted from that. I am not at his level financially and that does intimidate me.

I am not like those girls who will do anything to get a guy like that. I am just determined to dedicate my life to Art4TheHomeless and I think that he would probably look down on that. I really don't know him well and I could be just trippin over nothing but the best way for me to pull back is to dive into an art project.

I have never been to my home state capitol and I hope my work gets accepted!

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I was watchin the news and they showed a rally in Baghdad where thousands of people were claiming that the US is against Islam.

How is this possible when the US was founded on FREEDOM OF RELIGION????

Iraq, you really need to stop hatin

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