Just in case you haven’t cried today, here is an excellent article by Running Through Water on caring for adults with disabilities:
I read a story this morning in the news about a woman in Texas who stopped on the side of the road to chat with a homeless man. Her curiosity got the best of her since she passed him in the exact same spot on the side of the road four times a day for three years. You can see it here. He was very thin, unshaven, filthy. We’ve all passed “him” on the side of the road, haven’t we? Remember the Man-With-The-Golden-Voice several years ago who hung out by the highway and became a media sensation? I passed him…sometimes twice a day on the way to my child’s school. There he was–all wild haired and looking strung out…and then there he was on Dr. Phil with a Cliff Huxtable sweater and a haircut. A former radio announcer who succumbed to addiction. We were all cheering him on–he had…
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