There's A Reason Americans Pass By Homeless People In The Street Without A Second Glance

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24. Our daily lives overtake our ability to look around.

Long ago there was a short novel titled "Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up".

We don't become aware by choice, we become aware by tripping over the log.

My short-lived homeless experience was due to my vanity to not accept help from my friends. In fact my first night along the river, before cellphones existed, three friends showed up with steaks and ice-filled coolers. Later found the local "population" of homeless, was immediately "taken in" and "clued in". The negative rhetoric of "the homeless" exists, but are few in numbers- do wonder if this is due to how they feel is a way to endure. Never found any who were homeless by choice if given other options.

Methinks these may be freer than those of us blinded by our lives, what makes us contented, what we lust after, and how we see our importance on this baby blue planet. "How much do we really need?"

There was a church who wanted to be part of furnishing a place to sleep. BUT there are both Fire regulations and Health Codes, proved to be a deterrent to the idea. There was even issues if someone wanted to park their vehicle in the church parking lot. Foolishness.