Reply #76: You've really hit on something, Brandy

[Iwillnevergiveup]

You know, with all the frustration we've experienced (especially over the past 7 years) with fighting for what we know is right, working directly to favorably impact average peoples' lives makes a lot of sense to me. Yeah, maybe Rove and Bush and Cheney, etc. will live out a happy life even though they don't deserve it. But there are millions of other regular folks who need and deserve help now.

Steve Lopez, an L.A. Times journalist, wrote a wonderful book called "The Soloist" that got homelessness lots of attention in this city. He befriended a homeless, schizophrenic black man who at one point in his life had been enrolled at Julliard! Lopez describes the months and years he spent helping this one person get his life back on track. And he updates his columns occasionally on the man's progress.

I was going to donate this book to my public library, but if you pm me, I'll send it to you and then you can pass it along to someone else who cares or your own library. This thread of caring DUers told me it's the right thing to do.