by Kathy Izard
CHAPTER 12: WING AND A PRAYER
1.Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (New York: Image Books, 2009), 206.
CHAPTER 13: TRASH AND TREASURE
1.Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman’s Life (New York: Random House, 2012), 87.
CHAPTER 14: PRAYING TO A GOD YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN
1.The Great God Brown, 4.1, in Eugene O'Neill, Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill (New York: Limelight, 1994), 264n2.
CHAPTER 15: HOME ALONE
1.James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (New York: Vintage International, 2013), 92.
CHAPTER 16: CHRISTMAS MIRACLES
1.Becca Stevens, Love Heals, Thistle Farms, December 11, 2013.
CHAPTER 17: PAPERS AND PRAYERS
1.Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day,” in New and Selected Poems, vol. 1 (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004), 94.
CHAPTER 18: THE FIRST YES
1.Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, trans. Alan R. Clarke (New York: HarperOne, 2015), 64.
CHAPTER 19: CRAZY OR CALLED
1.John Newton, “Amazing Grace,” 1779.
CHAPTER 20: GIFTS FROM ABOVE
1.Joseph Campbell, Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion, ed. Diane K. Osbon (New York: Harper Perennial, 1995), 18.
CHAPTER 21: BLESS AND MULTIPLY THIS SMALL AMOUNT
1.Lauren Kate, Torment (New York: Delacorte Press, 2010), 358.
CHAPTER 22: JUST LISTEN
1.Ann Patchett, State of Wonder (New York: HarperCollins, 2011), 246.
CHAPTER 23: THE LAST, BEST YES
1.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Death: The Final Stage of Growth (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008), 96.
CHAPTER 24: I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE NOW
1.Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (New York: Vintage, 2006), 5.
CHAPTER 25: GOD WAS IN IT
1.John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (New York: William Morrow, 2013), 458.
2.1 Corinthians 13:13.
CHAPTER 26: TRUST THE WHISPER
1.Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner, January 1 (New York: HarperOne, 1992), 2.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
KATHY IZARD was an award-winning graphic designer for twenty years in Charlotte before launching the pilot program Homeless to Homes for the Urban Ministry Center in 2007. She successfully demonstrated this Housing First program could succeed and led the city-wide effort to build Moore Place, Charlotte’s first permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless men and women. Kathy has worked on numerous civic projects, most recently leading the development campaign for HopeWay, Charlotte’s first nonprofit residential mental health treatment center. She is the recipient of the Bank of America Local Hero Award and the NC Housing Volunteer of the Year Award. She, her husband, and four daughters have made Charlotte their home for more than thirty years.
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Photos
Leighton and Lindsay Green at their wedding rehearsal dinner, 1958
Mom and Dad with Maddie (L) and Emma (R), 1994
The Green Girls (L to R): me, Louise, Allyson, 1965
Izard family in Wyoming, 1997
Sarah Belk and me (front horse) on pack trip in Wind River Range, 1998
Lauren (seated), Kailey, and me at the top of Grant’s Peak in Wind River Range, 1998
Urban Ministry Center with community garden in foreground, 2015
Dale Mullennix, executive director, Urban Ministry Center
Liz Clasen-Kelly, former assistant director, Urban Ministry Center, and executive director, Men’s Shelter of Charlotte
(L to R) Angela Breeden, Denver Moore, and Edwina Willis Fleming at the first True Blessings, Charlotte, November 14, 2007
(L to R) Louise, me, Maddie, and Emma
Campsite where Coleman used to live
After twenty years on the streets, Coleman with the keys to his new home, 2008
Eugene Coleman and Scott Mercer, Christmas 2017
Junkyard purchased as the building site for Moore Place, 2009
Moore Place courtyard, 2012
“Chilly Willy” (William Larry Major) at a Moore Place bingo night, 2012
Moore Place with street signage, 2016
Brothers Johnny and Larry (“Chilly Willy”) Major in front of Moore Place, 2012
John and Pat Moore, Moore Place Grand Opening, January 29, 2012
© Oliver Fleming
Bill Holt, former executive vice president, Wells Fargo, and current EVP, First Tennessee Bank
Caroline Chambre Hammock, former executive director, Moore Place