I don’t know where he came from and I doubt that anyone else did either. He appeared one day and watched me before walking down the street. I didn’t think too much about him until the next day when I saw him sitting in the neighbor’s driveway. “Please don’t...
Articles with the Tag homeless
Something Pushed Me To Talk to Him and I Know What That Something Was!
It is easy to appreciate public transportation. it is environmentally kinder than driving a car, far less stressful than dealing with street, freeway and highway traffic. Using public transportation has an additional benefit. Bus riders intentionally and unintentionally reveal themselves with their body language and words. It is...
Street Smarts More Than Survival
A statistic caught my attention. Could the following be a fact? Every month 13,000 people in Los Angeles become homeless. An estimated 59,000 are homeless in Los Angeles. I really couldn’t believe it, so I had to ask somebody who might know. That someone is a long time...
He Couldn’t Get Too Close So He Called Me
The call came in early one afternoon. It was my neighbor who has become my friend. We are different and not just in years. It is our outlook, politics, experiences, point of view. Yet, not of all this seems to make a difference. We like each other, and never...