It became my shelter -- the place to which I went to feel safe.
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And so, as I pondered and worried and accomplished nothing, the winter blew in with a wild snow that scoured the streets and roared through my meagre shelter like the vengeful God of the Old Testament.
Every year, my troop supports a local shelter for families of domestic abuse by supplying them with Girl Scout cookies.
If I was a bird I'd be looking for shelter where I could look after my young.
From building bleachers, benches, a gazebo for an elementary school, and a shelter at the local golf club my students were learning the importance of providing a helping hand to make their community a better place to live.
The yew bushes at the front of my porch, for instance, serve as a winter shelter for chickadees.
My father was out fire watching and I well remember my mother and I making a dive for the Anderson shelter, mother clutching the large brown handbag containing birth certificates, insurance policies, bank books, identity cards etc - not forgetting our precious ration books.
But my millennial friends who are hell bent on food-water-shelter now, damn their fledgling paychecks and resources, would recite the same five reasons.
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That first night on the downs I slept in the dubious shelter of a forestry plantation called War Down, tucked into my little bivouac tent while the rain slipped down the conifer needles.
And I asked the cashier just that, her texting and me regaling of how my RV exploded in Louisiana, leaving me wallet-less and homeless with second- and third-degree burns on my body, begging for quick cash from friends to find a hospital and shelter.
"You guys are in my thoughts and prayers, " the president said during a visit to an emergency shelter in Atlantic City.
In my job as a physician, I volunteer in a clinic run by the local homeless shelter every other Wednesday night.
She contacted the shelter, got donations of running gear, and in July 2007 the "Back On My Feet" running club hit the streets.
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