For the past few years now, as I have traveled, I have seen a wide array of people living on the streets. Tiny thai men living in tents on top of metals roofs down an ally in Bangkok , legless men in Antigua Guatemala who sweep the walk ways to former anthropology students who started out living on the street as a social experiment then ending up liking it.

This is a collection of men and women who I have interviewed over a nice lunch. I've always struggled with just giving money to these people, so I started taking these people out to lunch in exchange for an interview and some photos. Here is their story:

Monday, July 12, 2010

My dad taught me about positive distraction...

Family came down for the 4th. Ima' a huge fan of my family. Sister Amanda just had a baby named him a mans name, Henry. We just hung out and watched henry do his thing. ate food and enjoyed one another's company. a good 4th to date if i do say so.

Part of me is glad that we now have infants to keep us occupied at family gatherings. Its always comforting to know that we have something to distract us from getting into drawn out, long discussion/arguments about the current state of our economy, how BP affixed a new cap on the Gulf oil well,how GOP's Snowe & Brown back Wall Streets overhaul bill, or how Kelsey Grammer reportedly dumped his wife of 13 years via a text message. Needless to say Henry and Owen couldn't have come at a better time, when you start preparing for a case and point argument about how old militants in Pakistan are starting to create new alliances and how this effects The good ol U S of A three weeks in advance, you definitely need something to distract...



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