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Thrive Detroit
Jun 20, 20203 min read
United States of Apocalypse
By Delphia Simmons I read somewhere that the word apocalypse does not mean final destruction and undoing of all things as I had thought,...
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Thrive Detroit
Dec 21, 20193 min read
I, Thou, and Homelessness
Delphia Simmons, Editor This Summer I was invited to give a Fall lecture about homelessness. I would be lecturing a group of about 30...
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Thrive Detroit
Apr 22, 20193 min read
The Misnomer of Affordable Housing in Detroit
By Delphia Simmons, Editor I cringe when I read or hear the “A-word” uttered in Detroit these days, especially in relationship to...
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Thrive Detroit
Aug 19, 20154 min read
Intentionally Unintentional
By Delphia Simmons I strive to maintain a perspective that has a lens on multiple angles of Detroit’s revitalization. I live, work, and...
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Thrive Detroit
Jul 5, 20153 min read
Impound, Impact, Innovation
Depending on whose report you dig into, my neighborhood is made up of a significant number of individuals and families in the lower...
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Thrive Detroit
Mar 6, 20154 min read
Gold, Silver, Furniture
The sign in the store window was too large to miss: “Trade Your Gold and Silver for Furniture”. By the time I pulled into my driveway...
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Thrive Detroit
Oct 5, 20143 min read
Opportunity is the Fabric of Innovation
Recently I was asked to answer the question: How can cities better connect all residents to economic opportunity? It’s been a few months...
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Thrive Detroit
Jul 7, 20143 min read
Detroit Districts Rallying to Form Community Advisory Councils by Deadline
Despite having a shorter-than-anticipated window of time, every one of the seven newly formed City Council Districts is working to meet...
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Thrive Detroit
Jun 12, 20143 min read
Father’s Day
I check my watch, weighing the time. Just enough minutes to get in my morning walk before I have to shower and leave to get my mother....
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Thrive Detroit
May 7, 20144 min read
The Girl with the Pink Backpack
It was one of those spring-like, end-of-winter Saturdays mild enough to tease many of us out of our sealed homes for relief from the...
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Thrive Detroit
Mar 25, 20142 min read
Here Comes the Sun, La-da-da-da…
Transitioning out of this year’s extremely harsh winter has me singing in anticipation of the spring and summer sun. The “polar vortex”...
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Thrive Detroit
Jan 20, 20142 min read
What Will You Do and When Will You Do it?
I first heard that question in a “People Encouraging People,” or PEP Group. PEP Groups are small informal gatherings of about 8-10 people...
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Thrive Detroit
Nov 27, 20132 min read
Testament to Friendship
My phone rang at 8:30 on a Saturday morning. It was one of those rainy weekends that make releasing the bedcovers difficult. But I was...
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Thrive Detroit
Sep 21, 20134 min read
The Future of Begging and Panhandling
Note: I prefer not to attach labels to individuals based upon their current negative behaviors. At any given moment, an individual can...
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Thrive Detroit
Jul 14, 20133 min read
A Modern Scarlet Letter: Marks and Stigma of Mental Illness
We, all of us, have relatives, friends, coworkers or others in our network who are suffering or have suffered from some form of illness...
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Thrive Detroit
Jun 2, 20133 min read
If This, Then That: Logical Conclusions of a Broken Criminal Justice System
In my wanderings around the internet, I came upon an online service called IFTTT (if this then that). If you haven’t heard of it, you...
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Thrive Detroit
May 4, 20132 min read
Wading Into the Morass of a Broken Criminal Justice System
Ever since I decided to research the mechanics of our prison system, I have been somewhat stuck. I have had to reexamine some of my own...
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Thrive Detroit
Apr 1, 20132 min read
Justice Scaled
Recently I learned of something even more disturbing than our former mayor’s pending indictment and imprisonment for 24 federal charges,...
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Thrive Detroit
Feb 28, 20133 min read
Proposed Park Closures an opportunity to think outside of the sandbox
Like me, you’ve probably kept up with the plans to lease Belle Isle to the State of Michigan as a cost saving measure for the City. ...
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Thrive Detroit
Feb 2, 20132 min read
Outliers
My husband recently told me about a workplace conversation he was a part of that included a woefully ignorant woman in her fifties. I...
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