Amusing Signs, Part IV

Here is another post from my amusing sign collection. I love taking photos of signs that I find amusing, creative, ironic, odd, thought provoking or relatable. If you’re interested, here are the links to the previous posts on amusing signs.

Amusing Signs

More Amusing Signs

Even More Amusing Signs

Here are my most recent additions. I hope you enjoy them!

The Keep Portland Weird initiative is alive and well! Here we love our expressiveness, individuality and reputation for being fun and quirky. With that in mind, here are some very Portland-ish things I’ve seen lately. This one was particularly head-scratching; this guy was giving a hair cut and getting instruction from a hair stylist in the middle of the road!

Here’s a closer look:

Sure, let’s just walk out to the median to do your hair; seriously?!?

The photo below is a sad one. The US is the only developed country that does not provide health insurance for all residents. As a result, we have a large population of homelessness and people in need of mental health care. Seeing homeless and street people is very common here. When we lived in France, and in our travels around Europe, we saw very few homeless people, or people in need of mental health care, because everyone there has health insurance; duh! Even as expats, we were covered by the French National Health System. Universal Health Care is the way to go!

With that in mind, we will continue to resist the Trump Administration’s draconian, cruel, inhumane and horrible practices every step of the way.

I hadn’t intended to include politics in this post, but with federal troops now on their way to Portland because, according to Trump, our city is a “war ravaged” “hell hole”, we’re feeling a little on edge. We have a wonderful city that is filled with so much beauty, interesting places, people and has a strong sense of community; he is so wrong.

We actually visited the protestors at the Portland ICE facility last weekend to learn more and check out the facts. It’s nothing but peaceful protests and citizens standing up for our constitional rights. We even chatted with one protestor who was featured on the Stephen Colbert show; wow! To learn more, click here to read theTravelsketcher’s recent post.

We’ll continue to resist every step of the way and hope to find some kindness and beauty in these dark days.

All the best,

Tricia