Leopold Street, Sheffield, England - September 30th 2019
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Last night, we lay down on sunbeds and watched Mrs Moon rise like a tangerine over The Aegean Sea. To capture the beauty of the scene fa... -
Chavs being chavvish. Just the other day, I spotted a male "chav" down by the local Methodist church. He was wearing a Burberrry ... -
So there I was standing in the kitchen of our son's terraced house. Something caught my eye outside in his little urban garden. It was a...
You and I both touched on similar themes tonight. How can this even happen?
ReplyDeleteWhen I visited Santa Monica in 2005, I talked with a Vietnam war veteran pushing a shopping trolley containing all of his worldly goods. It seemed so wrong.
DeleteLife is not easy...not easy for many, many people. Nothing should ever be taken for granted...so easily everything can be taken away.
ReplyDeleteThe true story of the homeless we do not know...and in most instances, will never understand fully, if or when we do learn their true story.
Life is full of sorrow and hardships...it's not all roses and boxes of chocolates.
Every homeless story is different from the next. We just do not know but in my view we should reach out to help them instead of treating them with disdain.
DeleteThat is so heartrending. There is a lot of suffering in this world, and it's not all in third-world countries by any means.
ReplyDeleteThere's too much disdain. Too much inhumanity. Shockingly, the homeless are often blamed rather callously for the situations they find themselves in.
DeleteHeartbreaking. I always think that being homeless must be so awful, to have no place that you can call your own, to always have to be on the move, to have no safe place.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way Lily.
DeleteI can't even begin to understand what it must be like, living like this. My own life is so completely different from this man's (and many, many others like him) that we could just as well be living on different planets.
ReplyDeleteDo you have homeless people on the streets of Ludwigsburg...or maybe Stuttgart?
DeleteWe do. Not as many in LB as in Stuttgart, but even one is one too many.
DeleteBack in the 60's there was one beggar that I knew of in Brighton although we called them tramps back then. Now the town is overflowing with them. So sad. I just always think that once they were some mothers little boy or girl and wonder what went wrong in their lives.
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So often it is drugs that drive them to this desperation but like you I often imagine them as children - where they came from, who loved them, where it all went wrong.
DeletePicture and thousands of angry words.
ReplyDeleteEven in America - the most powerful country on the planet - people fall off the rails. Is this civilisation?
DeletePictures like this make me feel guilty for having lived a safe, secure and comfortable life. It could quite easily not have been so.
ReplyDeleteThere but for the grace of God go any of us.
DeleteVery true YP, and we should never forget it.
DeleteThat's a great picture -- very evocative. You can't help but feel for the guy.
ReplyDeleteThank you Steve. It always feels good when you give one of images a thumbs up
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ReplyDeleteThat's just incredibly sad. The empty Starbucks cup in front of him is especially poignant.
ReplyDeleteI spotted that too Jennifer. Starbucks - a multi-national profit machine and that penniless man reduced to begging in a doorway. The contrast is stark.
DeleteTry as I might I cannot remember people sleeping on the streets when I was a child or even a young man. I do remember the occasional tramp living rough in North Wales. My Mum often spoke to one particular one and his lifestyle was definitely a matter of choice. He was a remarkably learned man. The first place I really became aware of beggars on the street was in Edinburgh in the early '70s. Now they are everywhere. I'm told there is even a homeless person in Stornoway although we dedicated 'homeless' accommodation. Coping with people living on the streets is one of the hardest 'social' things with which my mind attempts.
ReplyDeleteIn our Sheffield suburb we never saw any beggars for the first twenty years. Now they are a daily feature.
DeleteSuch an evocative picture, it tells of such sadness. We are not socially taking care of our fellow human beings so enthralled are we with other matters. The fact that homeless people die on the streets as yesterday's news shows should be a wake-up call but it won't. More housing is needed.
ReplyDeleteI heard that news item too Thelma. I don't see The New Buddha addressing the issue with much "vigour and vim" in the land of milk and honey beyond Brexit.
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