Today bloggers all over the world are writing about human rights abuses wherever they see them, feel them, know of them. There is much to tell.I'm staying close to home. Jarvenpa is a blogger/bookstore owner in Northern California. She writes so compellingly of her friends living on the edge that I would rather you read her post, Where we are at home. Go there. Read. You'll be glad you did. How many people do you know who are one paycheck away from homelessness? How many do you know who could not meet their rent or mortgage payments if the economy soured just a little more? Where would they sleep?
I don't have the answers to homelessness, but I know there is something wrong when our society puts people with mental illness on the street with no safety net under them. I know there is something wrong when society demands that the homeless find another neighborhood to lie down and rest, not under their bridge, their overpass, their doorway. I treasure the example Jarvenpa sets for us all. How Ordinary can we make that example in each of our lives?
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