The Yeti and the Mermaid...Chapter 8
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The Wholeness is created through balance of listening to the emotional and intellectual parts of the self through reaching to the Spirit through the Heart and linking all together.
In the end, which is the beginning, the yeti & the mermaid found the Ocean & they are living, happily ever after, as people, in veteran's supported housing in the Queen City. There names are Eloise and George.
The veteran friend, Bob, and Eloise, took George to the VA Hospital the next day and got his services activated. Next, they got him a VA Supported Housing counselor and he was given 2 options - wait for housing to open up in the VA Domiciliary or go back to the street and wait. Eloise was going to sleep on Bob's couch at his Airstream Trailer, without plumbing.
George had been acting weird ever since they arrived in the Queen City. He was acting out. He was on his meds but he was stomping his feet and having tantrums. He did not want Eloise to stay with Bob. He accused her of secretly having an affair with Bob - even though he was not her boyfriend. He threatened to take his next check and buy a ticket to Dulles. He claimed he had high school friends in Virginia and he was just going to GO! Eloise did not really think he could pull it off but it still worried her - but there was nothing she could do - she had no where else to go but Bob's.
George spent a few more weeks out on the street, and it changed him for the better. Hail storms drove George indoors to the Shelter for several weeks and then to calling his VASH counselor and surrendering his freedom to the VA Dom. He lived there for 6 months, getting socialized and fed, sleeping alot and taking his meds while Eloise lived at Bob's without plumbing and worked at Safeway.
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This 6 months was good for both Eloise and George and that , the Housing Authority awarded George a Section 8 voucher which included Eloise as his unofficial caretaker. They were given an enormous 2 bedroom apartment on the edge of the wealthiest old neighborhood. Eloise got a much better job at Home Depot and George is still on the mend, but they have many friends helping them who they also help. They have community - a family of their own creation, and they are especially blessed because they helped each other.
Previous Chapters
https://steemit.com/art/@in2itiveart/the-yeti-and-the-mermaid-the-true-story-of-2-people-who-needed-help-and-helped-each-other-chapter-1
https://steemit.com/art/@in2itiveart/the-yeti-and-the-mermaid-the-true-story-of-2-people-who-needed-help-and-helped-each-other-chapter-2
https://steemit.com/art/@in2itiveart/the-yeti-and-the-mermaid-chapter-3
https://steemit.com/art/@in2itiveart/the-yeti-and-the-mermaid-chapter-4
https://steemit.com/tribesteemup/@in2itiveart/the-yeti-and-the-mermaid-chapter-5
https://steemit.com/tribesteemup/@in2itiveart/the-yeti-and-the-mermaidchapter-6
https://steemit.com/tribesteemup/@in2itiveart/the-yeti-and-the-mermaidchapter-7
both great paintings!
Thanks they were all created during the time that this “story” was happening- the drawings,anyway- the paintings came later when “Eloise” was staying with “Bob”