{"id":302,"date":"2021-07-20T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katiekring.com\/new\/?post_type=product&#038;p=302"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:03:06","slug":"someplace-to-come-to","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/katiekring.com\/new\/product\/someplace-to-come-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Someplace to Come To"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Listen &amp; Peruse<\/h3>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PmH6F2V9MBc?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/katiekring.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Forgotten-Voices-Someplace-to-Come-To-Watermark.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button>Perusal Score<\/button><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border: 1px solid #666; padding: 10px; background-color: #eee;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Someplace to Come To<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>based on conversations with\u00a0 Springfield Street Choir members about The Connecting Grounds, a church that welcomed them<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"324\">I lived a rough life my whole life<br \/>\nSlept in a cardboard box full of broken dreams<br \/>\nSeeking safety and finding danger<br \/>\nTrying to meet some basic needsThis claustrophobic crowd<br \/>\nWe\u2019re like micro-nomads<br \/>\nThe same tribe of people<br \/>\nWalking from place to place<br \/>\nWith people who don\u2019t feel like my people<br \/>\nThrust together in poverty and spaceBut this is a place to come and feed the spirit<br \/>\nA home away from homeless<br \/>\nWhere we know they love and see us<br \/>\nA place where we can be us<\/td>\n<td width=\"300\">We\u2019re wearing wet socks all day long<br \/>\nWalking miles and miles till our feet bleed<br \/>\nNowhere to lie down, no where to heal<br \/>\nNowhere to sit or sleep or breatheAnd some of it is not as bad as people think<br \/>\nAnd some of it is way worse<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m dancing just as fast as I can<br \/>\nAnd somehow I\u2019m going in reverseBut here<br \/>\nIt gives you a peace, a sanctuary<br \/>\nSomeplace to come to<br \/>\nThis door\u2019s always been open<br \/>\nSomeplace to come to<br \/>\nSomeplace to come home to<br \/>\nHome.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a very bittersweet song about a special place that is gone now. The Connecting Grounds was the church where the Street Choir rehearsed from Day One until the pandemic halted our rehearsals in March of 2020. It was a church, yes, but it was also a shelter, a cafeteria, a meeting place, a grocery store, a clothing boutique, a bike-repair shop, a field hospital, a foster-visit center, and whatever else it needed to be, all in three bays of a strip mall up against the railroad tracks, in a shady part of town. It was all that, but it was so much more than that. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every person I interviewed for this project &#8212; the ones quoted here, and the ones not &#8212; used words like \u201csanctuary\u201d and \u201chome.\u201d \u201cThey love us,\u201d they said, over and over and over. And they did &#8212; they do &#8212; love the homeless and marginalized so well that the neighbors complained. The neighborhood organized. And this little church was told that they either had to stop serving their beloved homeless friends, or they had to leave. So they did, and have created a wonderful constellation of outreach services and others elsewhere in the city that quite literally have kept our homeless population alive. And yet, the thing that is missing is the place for everyone to be together under the banner of love. A place for everyone to come to &#8212; home<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">&#8221; \u2013 Katie Kring<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This stirring piece is compiled from interviews with the composer&#8217;s homeless friends on a cold winter night. 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