Strangers Among Us
Yesterday in her update on the Davies Shelter’s new
building, the executive director (Allison Mitchell-Trask) was telling the group
that some homeless people were reluctant to come to the shelter. She mentioned
that some of them may not be ready to work toward becoming self-sustaining and
that some of them may not like the idea of living with a group of strangers.
She pointed out that, just as we often feel fearful of a homeless man on the
street, some of them also are fearful. These other people are strangers. My
latest novel, Our Pebble in the Pond,
expresses that same message: homeless people come from a variety of
experiences, just as the rest of us do. In attempting to help them, we must
always remember that their homelessness does not define them.
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Wonderful, sensitive, insightful read.
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