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What is Home?
by J. Juno
Home is a house
but home is also a cardboard box
Jerem y Young
Home is an apartment
but home is also an alcove
Home is a condo
but home is also a mat on the floor
Home is a cottage
but home is also a tent
Home can be a choice
but sometimes
A home is not a choice
but a trap
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BY LEONORA KO
STAFF W R IT E R
eremy Young discovered Portland as a
coffee drinker and a rock climber.
“I came here on vacation in 2002, and I
really liked it and couldn’t stop talking about
it,” Jeremy said. “My hotel was at the
Marriott, so I would always go to Pioneer
Square for my little coffee and do the
crossword.”
Other conference participants told him
about a rock-climbing spot on the cliffs at
nearby Rocky Butte.
“You’ve got to rappel down into it, and
there are little bouldering problems,” he
said. “If you invent the climb (route), you
get to name it.”
Jeremy has rock-climbed throughout the
country and even named some climb routes
in Alabama.
I in not going to say the names because
they aren’t very nice,” he said in a low voice
with a smile.
“I really did like rock-climbing. It was
really beneficial for me,” Jeremy said. “It
was an exercise I liked doing. It was very
social. It was outdoors, which I like. A little
rock-climbing vacation , goes a long way.”
He hurt his shoulder rock-climbing and
“finished it off” when he fell off a ladder on"
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networking skills,” he said. “A lot of it was
about drinking and going to bars. It was
kind of like how things got done, how plans
got made.
“I’ve had some mental issues come up, as
I’ve gotten older,” he said with a sigh.
Mental illness runs in his family, and he said
he deals with anxiety and addiction.
“I do a lot better when I’m sober, so I’m
working towards that again,” he said.
To calm down and anchor himself, Jeremy
uses meditation techniques, which he
learned at a retreat based on the book “The
Way to Love” by Anthony de
Mello.
“It’s all about
awareness,” Jeremy
said. “If I had the
money, I would
buy the book for
every single
person I cared
about. I’ve
bought it for
Christmas for
friends and
people before.
(But) I think it’s
something you
have to find
yourself to
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appreciate.”
His battered copy was stolen along with
his backpack, so now he goes to Powell’s
Books to read it.
“I’m just kind of in the middle of a bad
time,” he said. “As I get older, I get less
‘bounce-backier.’
“My next step is complicated because I
don’t think it’s just about housing,” Jeremy
said thoughtfully. “If housing would have
solved the problem, I wouldn’t have wanted
to go back out on the street. So I think my
next big step is - I don’t know exactly what
that is.”
But Jeremy said he does know this: “Pay
attention. "Take opportunities. Say yes.
Saying yes does a lot of good things
for me usually. I’m going to try to do
that and what I can for the
moment.”
Jeremy said yes to this
interview on the spur of the
{ moment.
When asked what he would
1 like this vendor interview to
include, he replied, “My rugged
handsomeness,” and added,
“Maybe a sense of humor would
be fine.”
y P r k e d 8 0-plus-hour w eek s as
a construction worker and waiter in
New Orleans and as a cook on an
offshore drilling liner in the Gulf of
Mexico. He also helped a friend open
up a coffee shop and was a partner
in a business installing custom
furniture.
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