No easy answers

Hmmmmm.....

As I look out my apartment window I can see that there's someone sleeping in the parking lot next door. I saw him a little earlier...he seemed to be under the influence of something...urinating on the wall. Maybe now he's sleeping something off.

It's but a few feet that separate us--me in my apartment and this man sleeping in a parking lot.

I wondered about solutions...about what it would be like to open my own home to him, and whether that would "solve" anything. I thought about all the services available in town, how hard people are working to help, and how the problems that plague these folks persist.

There are no easy answers. There is no quick fix. There is no band-aid solution. But this I know: these people are a visible sign of failure, and it is not their own...it is society's: self-centered capitalism, unbridled human greed. These human beings, gifted and valuable, are a sign that the system is broken.

But what will?