Paul Matthew
@peacefulwon.bsky.social
Here to connect, create, collaborate; to live in the solution. To love in the face of hatred.
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." —Marcel Proust
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." —Marcel Proust
A winter daffodil, which is often relegated to weed. She is very much needed.
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A winter daffodil, which is often relegated to weed. She is very much needed.
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LA needs 500K affordable housing units. We're building 17K/year. With Olympics in '28, will we house our neighbors or hide them like Paris did? New data shows 100K+ unhoused in LA County. Displacement or dignity?
Read more: buff.ly/uwNsAX3
#EndHomelessness #RadicalHospitality #LA2028
Read more: buff.ly/uwNsAX3
#EndHomelessness #RadicalHospitality #LA2028
A Daily Reprieve from Homelessness
from Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of Second Grace LA
secondgracela.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
LA needs 500K affordable housing units. We're building 17K/year. With Olympics in '28, will we house our neighbors or hide them like Paris did? New data shows 100K+ unhoused in LA County. Displacement or dignity?
Read more: buff.ly/uwNsAX3
#EndHomelessness #RadicalHospitality #LA2028
Read more: buff.ly/uwNsAX3
#EndHomelessness #RadicalHospitality #LA2028
I truly wished we all lived by this rule.
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I truly wished we all lived by this rule.
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If you've ever wondered why telling your story to multiple agencies feels impossible...
It's because funding created silos that prevent information sharing. Each agency operates separately, requiring people to repeat trauma narratives over and over.
What if we flipped this? 🤔
It's because funding created silos that prevent information sharing. Each agency operates separately, requiring people to repeat trauma narratives over and over.
What if we flipped this? 🤔
Personal Data Rights and Systemic Change: Building Coordinated Care for Our Unhoused Neighbors
Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of Second Grace LA
buff.ly
September 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
If you've ever wondered why telling your story to multiple agencies feels impossible...
It's because funding created silos that prevent information sharing. Each agency operates separately, requiring people to repeat trauma narratives over and over.
What if we flipped this? 🤔
It's because funding created silos that prevent information sharing. Each agency operates separately, requiring people to repeat trauma narratives over and over.
What if we flipped this? 🤔
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Posted: What Is Radical Hope?
Not optimism (needs proof things improve). Not positive thinking. Radical Hope = capacity to continue meaningful work when logic says quit.
"Always most necessary where everything seems hopeless" - Merton
buff.ly/L4tLD6s
#Hope #Gift
Not optimism (needs proof things improve). Not positive thinking. Radical Hope = capacity to continue meaningful work when logic says quit.
"Always most necessary where everything seems hopeless" - Merton
buff.ly/L4tLD6s
#Hope #Gift
September 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Posted: What Is Radical Hope?
Not optimism (needs proof things improve). Not positive thinking. Radical Hope = capacity to continue meaningful work when logic says quit.
"Always most necessary where everything seems hopeless" - Merton
buff.ly/L4tLD6s
#Hope #Gift
Not optimism (needs proof things improve). Not positive thinking. Radical Hope = capacity to continue meaningful work when logic says quit.
"Always most necessary where everything seems hopeless" - Merton
buff.ly/L4tLD6s
#Hope #Gift
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” — Viktor Frankl
August 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” — Viktor Frankl
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Hope practitioners: If you could teach one thing about hope to someone feeling hopeless, what would it be? Building our wisdom library one insight at a time. buff.ly/DyQgITs #LettersToTheHoused #CommunityWisdom #SecondGraceLA
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We’re an online community committed to ending homelessness.
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August 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Hope practitioners: If you could teach one thing about hope to someone feeling hopeless, what would it be? Building our wisdom library one insight at a time. buff.ly/DyQgITs #LettersToTheHoused #CommunityWisdom #SecondGraceLA
Powerful article.
The difference that saved my life: I was required to attend treatment to keep benefits, but NOT required to stay sober to keep housing. That stability made recovery possible. Trump's order reverses this evidence-based approach. #HousingFirst #RecoveryJourney
Second Grace LA: Stable Housing Makes a Huge Difference
"It took me six years of trying before I got sober, nearly two more years before I could hold a decent job. What we do know is stable housing makes a huge difference."
This isn't just policy…
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August 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Powerful article.
I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
www.mobilize.us
August 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Three Ways To Help Keep Immigrant Communities Together
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
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Three Ways To Help Keep Immigrant Communities Together
Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA
open.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Three Ways To Help Keep Immigrant Communities Together
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"The solutions exist. The money exists. The only question is whether we have the will to act—before the next crisis hits."
Week's end thought: Crisis reveals what we value. Our response reveals who we are.
Video + Article: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VukT... + open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
Week's end thought: Crisis reveals what we value. Our response reveals who we are.
Video + Article: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VukT... + open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
August 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The solutions exist. The money exists. The only question is whether we have the will to act—before the next crisis hits."
Week's end thought: Crisis reveals what we value. Our response reveals who we are.
Video + Article: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VukT... + open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
Week's end thought: Crisis reveals what we value. Our response reveals who we are.
Video + Article: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VukT... + open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
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"We've lost the compassion to see these as real emergencies with life-altering complications."
When 7 people die daily from street life, how do we restore our sense of emergency?
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=prIY...
#CompassionFatigue #HomelessnessIsAnEmergency #SystemicChange
When 7 people die daily from street life, how do we restore our sense of emergency?
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=prIY...
#CompassionFatigue #HomelessnessIsAnEmergency #SystemicChange
Inching Forward Isn't Enough: Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA
Inching Forward Isn't Enough: Why LA's Homelessness Progress Still Falls Short
Why "inching forward" isn't enough when lives are at stake.
Almost 7 people die daily from the effects of street life…
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July 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"We've lost the compassion to see these as real emergencies with life-altering complications."
When 7 people die daily from street life, how do we restore our sense of emergency?
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=prIY...
#CompassionFatigue #HomelessnessIsAnEmergency #SystemicChange
When 7 people die daily from street life, how do we restore our sense of emergency?
Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=prIY...
#CompassionFatigue #HomelessnessIsAnEmergency #SystemicChange
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"67% of undocumented households in LA were already rent-burdened before raids"
Add the fires. Add the fear. Perfect storm.
But: mansion tax has $14.6M ready. Solutions exist.
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VukT...
#MansionTax #Solutions #LTTH
Add the fires. Add the fear. Perfect storm.
But: mansion tax has $14.6M ready. Solutions exist.
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VukT...
#MansionTax #Solutions #LTTH
When Fear Comes Knocking: Immigration Raids Push More LA Families Into Homelessness
Letters to the Housed by Paul Asplund of SecondGrace.LA
open.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"67% of undocumented households in LA were already rent-burdened before raids"
Add the fires. Add the fear. Perfect storm.
But: mansion tax has $14.6M ready. Solutions exist.
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VukT...
#MansionTax #Solutions #LTTH
Add the fires. Add the fear. Perfect storm.
But: mansion tax has $14.6M ready. Solutions exist.
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VukT...
#MansionTax #Solutions #LTTH
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"Pick one thing. Support mutual aid. Learn your neighbor's name. Show up."
The solutions exist. The money exists. Do we have the will?
Support: www.gofundme.com/f/fuel-hope-...
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
#MutualAid #Action #Support
The solutions exist. The money exists. Do we have the will?
Support: www.gofundme.com/f/fuel-hope-...
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
#MutualAid #Action #Support
Donate to Fuel Hope with Second Grace LA!, organized by Paul Asplund
At Second Grace LA, we believe ending homelessness requires all of us working together. W… Paul Asplund needs your support for Fuel Hope with Second Grace LA!
www.gofundme.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"Pick one thing. Support mutual aid. Learn your neighbor's name. Show up."
The solutions exist. The money exists. Do we have the will?
Support: www.gofundme.com/f/fuel-hope-...
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
#MutualAid #Action #Support
The solutions exist. The money exists. Do we have the will?
Support: www.gofundme.com/f/fuel-hope-...
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
#MutualAid #Action #Support
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"I don't think the goal is to detain. I think the goal is to spread fear" - Mayor Bass
90 troops, 17 Humvees, terrorized children, zero arrests. This is manufactured fear.
How do we respond when the cruelty is the point?
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
#ICEOperations #FearCampaigns
90 troops, 17 Humvees, terrorized children, zero arrests. This is manufactured fear.
How do we respond when the cruelty is the point?
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
#ICEOperations #FearCampaigns
July 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"I don't think the goal is to detain. I think the goal is to spread fear" - Mayor Bass
90 troops, 17 Humvees, terrorized children, zero arrests. This is manufactured fear.
How do we respond when the cruelty is the point?
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
#ICEOperations #FearCampaigns
90 troops, 17 Humvees, terrorized children, zero arrests. This is manufactured fear.
How do we respond when the cruelty is the point?
open.substack.com/pub/secondgr...
#ICEOperations #FearCampaigns
She and likes of her must go: sign.moveon.org/petitions/kr...
Kristi Noem must go!
Kristi Noem was an unqualified pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security. In her first months on the job, she posed for photos in front of wrongfully imprisoned people, made light of human suff...
sign.moveon.org
July 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
She and likes of her must go: sign.moveon.org/petitions/kr...
I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
www.mobilize.us
July 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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This is fascism.
🚨 DON’T LOOK AWAY 🚨
U.S. Professor KIDNAPPED and DISAPPEARED by ICE!
He still remains detained.
Yesterday a California Faculty Association union leader, Professor Jonathan Caravello, was dragged away by four masked ICE agents while lawfully observing a raid.
This is NOT normal.
U.S. Professor KIDNAPPED and DISAPPEARED by ICE!
He still remains detained.
Yesterday a California Faculty Association union leader, Professor Jonathan Caravello, was dragged away by four masked ICE agents while lawfully observing a raid.
This is NOT normal.
July 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is fascism.
