I am working on your theme song just so you'd know. My personal theme song?

On the rise theme. On the rise theme?

On the other I theme?

I really am working on.

What would the theme song be? Like, do you have a...

I had the start to stay in the shower not so long ago after a really hard night and I was able to warm up and clean up when I got here and it starts out on the rise on the rise and then I started singing in my in my language because it first of

all it rhymed and it was what was coming to mind so it's

on the right this is J.S. a participant at On the Rise, a day program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that provides

safety, community, and advocacy for homeless and formerly homeless women

and trans non-binary individuals.

He's being interviewed by Abigail, the stewardship and event officer at On the Rise.

On the Rise.

So I love that.

Wait, so what is, you said your language, like what is your language?

The first language I spoke was I wrote

or Iroquois. It's a native language from one of the early Indian tribes.

J.S. has been experiencing homelessness for four years. He's been visiting on the rise for the last six months. And then I spoke

chalog for a little bit and English is actually kind of a later language for me and sometimes and I also speak a few others but

sometimes English can be hard because it's a conformity type of language like one

set of words is okay in one setting but the same set of words is not okay in a different setting.

Like we don't speak the same at a courtroom as we do in the club, you know what I mean? So love for example in English is one word for us. There's a different word for each type of love. Like with paternal love, friendly love, you know, things like that.

And that's one thing on the rise has really helped me out a lot with was providing that this

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