With Memories of a Comic Comrade, Margaret Cho Helps the Homeless
SAN FRANCISCO — The comedian Margaret Cho has been busking around her hometown, singing, plinking on her guitar and nearly stripping to raise money for the homeless. San Francisco has pop-up restaurants, art galleries and shops, but Ms. Cho’s may be the first pop-up charity.
Through social media, she has notified fans, who brought coats, pants, shirts, shoes, blankets and lots of socks as well as cash, which she gave away at each event. Her ninth and final performance was on Tuesday.
The inspiration, Ms. Cho said, was her friend Robin Williams, who committed suicide in August at age 63. When she could not shake her sadness, another comedian friend said, “Don’t mourn Robin — be Robin.” Mr. Williams, who lived in the Bay Area, raised millions for the homeless. So Ms. Cho began what she calls “my mini-baby-weirdo version” of Mr. Williams’s charity routines.
She also did it because, she said pointedly, this city has become Dickensian, with the rich getting richer as they till the digital fields of Google and Facebook and the poor getting poorer and priced out of their apartments. Ms. Cho knows that she cannot change the economy, but she can lift spirits by doing what she knows best.
Michael Austin, who lives under a freeway in San Francisco, picking out a coat from donated items that fans brought to one of Margaret Cho's performances. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times
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Beautiful. Simply Beautiful. May we all give from our hearts.
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Inspired from a friend to "be Robin because she's so sad about his passing".. beautiful! "... So Ms. Cho began what she calls “my mini-baby-weirdo version” of Mr. Williams’s charity routines."
Coincidently I had a really inspiring conversation with a homeless friend today.. who wanted to tell me that he's stopped drinking and really psyched about getting his act together. Trying to cut down on the cigs too. I was so happy for him.
Mahalo for your OP reporting on the gift of giving to Homeless People, she~
It's all about the love in your heart Cha, not the money in your pocket. Yes, Robin Williams and Margaret Cho have given so much of themselves.
This~
At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by 'I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was naked and you clothed me, I was homeless and you took me in.'
Hungry not only for bread -- but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing -- but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks -- but homeless because of rejection.
Mother Teresa
http://www.inspirationpeak.com/kindness.html
Cha
Brilliant~
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