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From the ❤️: “good trouble” imagery, elevated voices. Ryan “Pawn” Rhodes’ @pawnpaint mural at 5th and Broadway is huge, covering two sides of the ABC building. The mural is part of the Community Murals Sacramento (CMS) project, an innovative pilot program funded by the City of Sacramento. The project is designed to elevate the voices of neighborhoods across each of Sacramento’s 8 districts. See yesterday’s post for Liv Losee-Unger’s “Rhythm of the Boulevard” mural for CMS @ORLUarts. A small section of Pawn’s mural serves as background for these images of Jay. Jay is 50 years old and has been on-and-off homeless for more than 20 years. For the past month he has been living at Safe Ground, a city tent facility intended to be a short-term solution for 110 unsheltered people. Jay hopes to get into housing soon. The juxtaposition of Pawn’s mural and Jay’s images hopefully serve to elevate the voices of our homeless neighbors. Everyone has a name. Everyone has a story. Everybody counts or nobody counts. “Sooner or later we all discover that kindness is the only strength there is,” Father Greg Boyle. Through acts of kindness we can make the world a better place. Thanks CMU, Pawn and Liv. #mercypedalers #loavesfishes #encounterchurch_sacramento #showupsac #sacramento #California #photojournalism #streetphotography #streetlife #kindness #survival #homeless #gratitude #socialjustice #poverty #streetportrait #environment #compassion #hope #love #hunger #hardtimes #justice #mercy #916 #pawnpaint #hot #heat #pawnpaint #orluarts