One thing I'll never get over is how much street folk desperately need to be seen as human. Today a recently beaten fellow asked me for a coffee, but what happened next was the heartbreaker. As I was making eye contact, his eyes welled up & he apologized. For what? He said for burdening me, because it was his fault he'd been beaten, because he'd said bad words. Just meeting him human to human was enough to spark his shame. He limped off then like so many: in need of therapy that will never come.
@MLClark That’s heart breaking :( There’s so many homeless on the streets here on the West Coast and it’s impossible to know what to do about it except show as much compassion as I can.
It never feels like enough.