This editorial was found on the web QUOTED FROM U S MAGAZINE THE ARTICLE MADE ME TAKE A LOOK AT FAMILIAR SITUATIONS I HAVE OFTEN
FOUND MYSELF IN AND REALIZED ALL IT TAKES IS A THOUGHT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?
THE THOUGHT BEING I WANT FOR MY BROTHR THAT WHICH I WANT FOR MY SELF AND THAT INCLUDES HEALTH
WEALTH PEACE JOY HAPPINESS WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE WE CAN STO THE MADNESS IT BEGINS WITH ME THINK
ABOUT IT "CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THINGS AND TH THINGS YOU SEE CHANGE"
Sly Stone
has fallen on seriously hard times.
The funk and soul legend behind such classic songs as "Family Affair"
and "Everyday People," the Sly and the Family Stone frontman is now homeless, living in a white camper van parked
in L.A.'s rough Crenshaw neighborhood.
"I like my small camper," the reclusive, flamboyant singer, now 68,
tells the New York Post. "I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving."
Four
years ago, the icon (real name: Sylvester Stewart) resided in a sprawling "compound" in the Napa Valley featuring
a vineyard and multiple cars out front. At the height of his fame, Stone lived in a 5,432-square foot Beverly Hills mansion
that once belonged to John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas
But the eccentric, erratic artist succumbed
to both drug addiction, money mismanagement and lavish spending habits; Stone has spent tens of thousands of dollars on elaborate
cars and motorcycles, which he sometimes even gifted to friends.
After multiple arrests in the 1980s for cocaine possession,
Stone performed in 1987, and vanished from the stage for 19 years. He reemerged in a bizarre Grammys tribute in 2006, when
he shuffled off the stage mid-song. Increasingly paranoid over the years, he sued his manager of fraud in 2009, asking for
$50 million in damages and stolen royalty payments.
