Comments on: A Possibly Offensive Post About Rats

By: april

april — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:00:54 +0000

i miss them.
miss you too.
and your old house, and the city.

By: Mis

Mis — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:37:24 +0000

I want to live like this! Only I also kind of want to sell out first so I can pay off my student loans.

By: benjamin ady

benjamin ady — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:01:50 +0000

Rachelle,

As always, you write brilliantly. Thankyou. And thankyou for the link to the interview. Ken and Deborah rock. And your translation beats the tar of out most of the translation out there.

By: cheryl

cheryl — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:19:03 +0000

I love that teacher too. And strangely enough I am waiting to hear at this very moment if we wil be moving to Portland.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:10:51 +0000

Not sure if you saw my comment on twitter. I didn’t find this at all offensive. Provocative, yes. Challenging, yes. Thoughtful, yes. Necessary, absolutely.

Not really about rats. Truly about survivors. Thank you for shaking up my thinking.

By: Cara

Cara — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:18:09 +0000

Rats don’t worry about filling up their gas tanks
Their grey hairs, their crows feet,
or if their ass looks fat.
Rats care about the things that matter
Am I warm? Can I eat today? Are my kids ok?
Rats find a hole and call it home. Rats don’t compare it to the other rats’ hole.

This post has inspired me.

I want to be more like a rat.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:18:12 +0000

This is a beautiful post. I love “up-side down kingdom” talk. What a happy ending story about your friends who entered into the Portland street community.

By: Monica

Monica — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:18:13 +0000

I love this! And I love your loose translation too!