Marshall and I were to stay in a dormitory at Atlanta University, a university for Negroes, which is the only place in town where, on an occasion such as this, white and Negro visitors can be sheltered under the same roof without public scandal.
In Tasmania, local Aborigines and devils sheltered in the same caves.
"My wife had let in a stray kitten to feed and shelter the same day.
Their mission statement on The Homeless Period website reads: "This initiative believes that tampons and towels should be made available through homeless shelters, the same way the government provides condoms".
This week Daniel found himself surrounded by a roomful of other migrants in a Mexico City shelter — the same week Pope Francis arrived.
Or a storm that causes everyone to start running for shelter at the same time.
The measure has not been a cure-all, because families do not always arrive at shelters on the same schedule as the school year.
Each generation lives under one sky, shelters from the same rain (that falls throughout) and inherits life's limited ration of lines.
The statement from the Homeless Services Department said, "By conducting arrests at several shelters on the same day, individuals with outstanding warrants had little time to learn of the initiative and try to evade the N.Y.P.D".
In the 1960's, the threat of annihilation was a family affair, as door-to-door salesmen hawked fallout shelters in the same way today's anxiety entrepreneurs have peddled gas masks and Cipro.
