How do you feel when a homeless person encounters you and ask for "some spare change"?
How do you react? What thought's cross your mind?
Overall, I feel compassion and curiosity. Yes. Curiosity.
How did these people end up where they are? What are they doing to try and rebuild their lives? Where are their families? If they went missing- would any one notice? Care?
As for the compassion; if I had the extra change I would give it to them. But I rarely do. Instead I've opted to offer to buy them a meal and in exchange I ask only they help me to better understand their situations and thus quench that curiosity.
Today I began. I conducted two interviews. I'll be posting these interviews and any others I conduct.
Nov 10 2005
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*** Copied from my old blog reneruizj.blogspot.com
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