In the stands, umbrellas were used for shade instead of shelter.
Both promised to extradite each other's rebels instead of sheltering and encouraging them, as each had accused the other of doing but naturally denied doing themselves.
Many great ideas came out of that effort, but the problem remains – and can never be solved so long as we meet people who fall outside society's norms with bans instead of shelter.
"Instead of sheltering the animals from the rigour of the ecosystem and relying on external inputs to maximise peak production, the WoDaaBe engineer the animals' encounter with the ecosystem, through sophisticated knowledge/labour-intensive inputs, including a variety of instituted forms of mobility" (Krätli 2008, 30).
Free-range parents believe that instead of sheltering their children from harsh realities they should prepare them to make smart decisions when they are faced with adversity.
And when it comes to Brenna, who faces the world with a physical condition, I find myself backing off more and more -- very reluctant, but well-intentioned -- pushing my baby bird out of the nest instead of sheltering her under my wings.
In recent years, the city has been following the Housing First Initiative, trying to fight homelessness with permanent housing and support services instead of temporary shelters.
When a bomb comes crashing down on a building, leaving devastation in its wake, they rush towards the site instead of towards shelters.
Some advocates for the homeless say they are worried that number will be insufficient, but D.C. officials say it's a better use of city money to put people in more permanent housing instead of temporary shelters.
It would also require revamping the nation's tax incentives so that they create new savings by typical families, instead of new shelters for the existing wealth of affluent families — another nonstarter for this White House.
