{"id":991,"date":"2019-01-06T18:26:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T02:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imho.kileozier.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2019-01-06T18:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T02:42:39","slug":"someones-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imho.kileozier.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Someone’s Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On a recent cold, wet morning, I turned the corner into my street and encountered this. Here it is; an articulately painful metaphor for homelessness.<\/span><\/p>\n

I get it. I don’t kid myself. Homelessness is a smelly, dirty, often noisy, unpleasant, sometimes dangerous and at least scary element of thousands of neighborhoods and cities. No argument.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some are homeless due to drugs and concomitant mental deterioration, some due only to mental deterioration, some out of a downward slide\u00a0into hopeless poverty, some out of sudden, unforeseen circumstance.<\/span><\/p>\n

While I hate the problem, recognize the complexity and do not know how to solve it; I can’t hate these people. Whatever the point of view each hold that keeps them on the street; they are each and every one of them human beings. Someone’s child.<\/span><\/p>\n

I imagine the experience of having no shelter, no anchor, no place that is “mine” can erode one’s self respect, self esteem, view of the world. I can excuse the anger I encounter (as difficult as it is to deal with); it just makes me so sad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Imagine having no place to simply shit. No place. Every day seeking an open bathroom, some retailer’s brave courtesy, being relegated to finding a space behind a dumpster or someplace<\/i> where no one can see… And failing to find it in time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shame. Humiliation. Rage. Pain. Despair. This photo says all that with one image. Just toss the pants and give up.<\/span><\/p>\n

My personal approach is to look each in the eye, acknowledging the humanity therein…sometimes deep and barely there\u2026hoping at least to offer a sense of recognition – of being seen – as Human and present. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes, that can become an uncomfortable begging situation; but far more often it’s just a kind word and a nod from both of us. I can contribute that. At least.<\/span><\/p>\n

IMHO<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/b>“IMHO – Creating Compelling Experience”\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a> , read and studied throughout the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, is a free download from iTunes and the iBook Store. Free.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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