Blue probably won’t be giving up coffee or chocolate during the upcoming Lenten season. He already has a PHD in connecting with the desolation and alienation of our Lord’s journey.
Blue is a Native American. As soon as he was eligible he left his Cheyenne River Sioux reservation to enter the military in the late 70's. He devoted seven years to Uncle Sam serving in Panama. Upon his return he utilized the GI Bill to study three years at the University of Minnesota, but eventually the multiple layers of PTSD, lack of family resources and minimal employment options mercilessly caught up with him. Now, like so many of his Native brothers and sisters he walks the stations of the cross through our Denver streets sleeping in alleyways and under bridges desperately thirsting for his next drink.
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