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Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 Shelton-Mason County Journal Page 13 ,
Shelton author reads from her book of hope
By Gordon Weeks
gordon@masoncounty. com
Shelton author Mary May will
read from her autobiographical book
“Sheltered by Hope: My Journey Out
of Homelessness” at 11:30 am. Sun-
day at Shelton Presbyterian Church,
1420 Shelton Springs Road.
Copies other book will be available
for purchase for $20.
In an interview with the Journal,
May said she wrote the book in 2009,
a year after she moved to Shelton. It
chronicles her years of homelessness
in San Diego and how her gratitude
to God for getting her off the streets
inspired her to create a meal program
with health care clinics.
“I put it away because no one was
really interested in, it at that time,”
she recalled.
Last fall, May found the transcript
while cleaning. She gaVe it to a girl-
friend, “and she couldn’t put it down,”
May said.
While taking a writing class at
Olympic College Shelton, instructor
Carolyn Maddux took an interest in
it, May said. Sunday’s reading will be
her first, she said.
May was born in Richmond, Vir~
ginia, and moved to upstate New
Yok when she was 5. She attended
'All of Us Strangers’ provi
ndrew Haigh’s “All of
Us Strangers’,’ began
s an adaptation of
Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel
“Strangers,” but Haigh has so
transformed and personalized
the plot that the film’s story
deserves to be recognized as
its own creation.
Assigning credit matters
in this case because Haigh’s
film is so good, with only my
own qualms of personal inter-
DARK REVIEWS
Shelton author Mary May’s autobiographical book “Sheltered by Hope: My
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Journey Out of Homelessness” chronicles her years of homelessness in
San Diego and how gratitude to God for getting her off the streets inspired
her to create a meal program with health care clinics. Journal photo by
Gordon Weeks
Catholic school and moved to Lake-
wood in Washington when she was a
junior in college. She studied for two
years at Western Washington Univer-
sity and her junior and senior years at
the University of Washington, where
London.
leery.
pretation preventing me from
calling it great. The film’s fi-
nal'twist contradicts the posi-
tive thematic through-line it
had been building up to.
Andrew Scott, beloved for
his roles as Moriarty in the
2010-2017 BBC series “Sher-
lock” and the priest in the
2019 season of “Fleabag,”
does more than depend on
his considerable charms to
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play Adam, a lonely televi—
sion screenwriter living in a
nearly empty tower block in
Scott’s measured and ear—
nest performance aids in
overcoming two storytelling
tropes that normally leave me
While I can find it self-
indulgent for onscreen stories
to center on screenwriters,
Adam’s profession is depicted‘
as a natural extension of his
unmet need to have someone
else hear out his full self.
After so many movies and
TV shows have attempted
to ape the twist ofM. Night
Shyamalan’s “The Sixth
she earned a bachelor’s degree in sci-
ence in social work. She completed
one year of law school at the Univer-
sity of Puget Sound.
May then pursued a degree in pub—
lic administration at the University of
desheafing
Sense” since 1999, it’s re—
freshing that Haigh doesn’t
try to hide that Adams pill“
ents, who are clearly younger
than him, have been dead for
decades, even though they’re
there to greet him when he
starts visiting his old child-
hood home.
While Shyamalan left no
room for doubt that “The
1 Sixth Sense” was a ghost
story, Haigh’s “All of Us
Strangers” could credibly be
interpreted as Adam either
:1) making contact with kind
spirits who have unresolved
emotional issues, or b) work~
ing out his own unresolved
emotional issues from his
IF YOU GO:
WHO: Shelton author Mary May
WHAT: Reading from her book”Sheltered by
Hope: My Journey Out of Homelessness"
WHEN: 11:30 am. Sunday
‘ WHERE: Shelton Presbyterian Church, 1430
Shelton Springs Road
1 ADMISSION: Free
Oregon, where she earned a master’s
degree. She moved to San Diego to
work as a financial planner at General
Dynamics before becoming homeless. ,
In a news release, May described
her story as “not just a personal jour-
ney, but an inspired plea for com—
passion for the homeless.” She de-
scribes her “triumph of turning her
experience of life on the streets and
beaches of Southern California into
a bootstrapping transformation to,
activism.”
Her meal program, Harvest for the
Hungry, is used in 20 communities.
She became an advocate for the home—
less and a peer—support specialists.
May is retired, and you can find
her handing out cross necklaces at
meals served by Shelton—based Crazy
Love Ministries.
past relationships, through
metaphor and intense .
imagination.
As Adam becomes reac—
quainted with parents, who
last knew him when he was
12 years old, one of the first
matters he raises them is
that he’s gay.
He couldn’t do that when
they were alive, and even as
their reactions reflect the con-
cerns and perceptions Adam
knew they would harbor, they
ultimately accept it and he
receives the catharsis he was
hoping for.
Adam’s parents are
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