I was at my fourth grades son football game at Lake Oswego High School. Lake Oswego is the poshest, most expensive town in Oregon. If you have to ask how much you can't afford to live there. I live elsewhere. Under the bleachers there was this fifty some year old man scrounging for pop bottles. His life started out with hope and promise, but somewhere along the line his life went off the track. Maybe drugs or alcohol or an economic downturn, but I wondered as I watched him, invisible to everyone else, what had brought him to where he was in life. The homeless who haunt our cities are almost invisible, and yet they started out very visible and cared for. Now they are just throw aways in a throw away society.
2006-09-25
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