HHH Travels to Tennessee!

HHH Members Beverly Cowan, Rollon Washington, Teresa Wood, and Tommy Yarborough crowded in a mini-van with Liz Clasen and headed across the mountains to Nashville, TN. We met up with our sister group the Power Project and joined them outside the Government Center asking for the Mayor to support 200 Permanent Supportive Housing Units for the chronically homeless. While HHH members found a warm home on a friend's floor, 16 Power Project affiliates were arrested for sleeping out on the Government Center's lawn. We celebrated their release the next day after all charges were dropped. Teresa helped lead the singing that welcomed the out of their cells. Among the arrestees were Charlie Stroebel, the founder of Room in the Inn, theologian Don Beiswenger, and national activist Cheri Honkala.

HHH members enjoyed learning from the strategies of the Power Project and were impressed by their office set-up! We look forward to their promised visit to Charlotte.

On the way, the group found respite in Kingsport, TN for an evening.

Member Rollon Washington, also a poet, wrote the following poem about his time in the hills.

Silence of Peace
By Rollon Washington

Raging silence of quietness of silence of peace
In the land of Tennessee
Lying above and beneath the mountaintops and valleys
In stillness quests of the freshness of the entrance and purity of a new day
As I sit in peace capturing raging silence of the beauty of peace
Be still onto me

In quest of peace descending from above the mountaintops
And down in the valleys of the hills
Enrapturing view of my peace and serenity
Absorbing the gentle tranquility about the air
In stillness of that like the silence of the lamb
Being me in sight of my further view
Flying above from tree to tree
Birds fly in gentle flight
Awakened together by morning dew
As together we embrace as early birds catching the worm
And birth a new born day