BREAKING NEWS:

The news today out of Wall Street indicates a drop in the NASDAQ owing to The Loose Lambs Company’s uncertain future resulting in the death of owner Loren Dishby. Known for having changed the face of the outdoors by inventing and popularizing the personal tent, The Loose Lambs Company sold personal tents to countries all around the world. Loren Dishby was also a poet. His bestselling books of poetry, There’s Little of Love Available, made The New York Times Bestseller List successfully bringing a commercial poetry back into the homes of many Americans.

During the 2000’s, Loren Dishby cleverly capitalized on the housing slump identifying the need for individuals to find temporary, alternative housing. The small, upside down canoe, looking tents gained popularity due to the seeming isolation and feel of comfort within the tents.

Although the tents have become a familiar sight in many cities, the tents have caused the obvious issues that unplanned habitation can bring. Reminiscent of the 1930’s “Hoovervilles,” most of the tent cities are areas illegally inhabited with sites that are overcrowded, with sewage, water, garbage, crime and disease issues among the top problems.

Hated by many for his invention, he did have his supporters. Many in the social service industry championed his crusades to keep the homeless under tents donating thousands of dollars and tents to those in need.

Over the many controversial years, one environmental group wrote, “The tents are a reworking of culture. One of the worst things to happen to humankind since the invention of the bomb.”

With everything said, Loren Dishby was a visionary. Fashioned by most as the embodiment of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, Gatsby, he left the earth, of his own accord. It is surmised he went into the ocean near Malibu, California around midnight, his body found by early morning joggers three days later. He leaves behind a mother and several nephews. You may not like the mark he made on global society; Loren Dishby was a visionary. He was the CEO of a profitable company and a man who probably recited to himself one of his more popular poems, “…there is little of love available.”