2/10/2023 0 Comments The night shift mac riley disease![]() I was in Los Angeles as the HIV/AIDS epidemic began to peak. I had to cook it in a partially rusted cookie tin because I couldn’t afford to buy pots and pans. I moved in and bought some Campbell’s tomato soup. ![]() Sure enough, I found an ad for a cheap place to live: it cost $400 a month, which didn’t leave me with much else, but at least I would have four walls, instead of a car, surrounding me. As a Nichiren Buddhist, I believed strongly in the power of chanting to bring positive results in my life and had increased the number of hours I spent on it. Still, I considered this progress and a positive result of my increased chanting. I’d hoped to get a live-in assignment to avoid paying rent, but there wasn’t one available. ![]() The next morning I signed with a temp agency that soon found me work with AIDS patients. ![]()
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