Category: Miscellaneous

        The hippies have been chased away from sitting on the front steps of the McDonald’s that’s on the corner of Haight Street and Stanyan in San Francisco in the hippie capital of the world.  It’s too bad because their gathering there was a major tourist attraction, giving people a taste of what they were looking…

Going Home   # 6 At the end of the day a vivid procession is seen, as the homeless move across the meadow toward the woods where they make their camps at night.  They have all their belongings with them, tents and bedding and clothes, arranged in strollers and carts or piled high in backpacks.  They…

A Reliable Audience   # 5 The homeless are the audience on days when there aren’t many people on Hippie Hill watching the drums.  You can tell they’re homeless because they’re under blankets, trying to stay warm in their thin castoffs.  The rich picnickers around them, with blankets placed only underneath them, enjoy the brisk air…

  The homeless are the audience on days when there aren’t many people on Hippie Hill watching the drums.  You can tell they’re homeless because they’re under blankets, trying to stay warm in their thin castoffs.  The rich picnickers around them, with blankets placed only underneath them, enjoy the brisk air in fancy down jackets…

Like plants pushing through cracks in the sidewalk they have grown, so strong that hopeful dreams still stir within them like great seeds. They came from broken homes and broken dreams and a sick nation that had also lost its way. The advertisers called them “Generation X” or “Y” or “Cybergeeks,” and “mooks n’ midriffs”…