While our politicians square off about the right to life and the HHS mandate, I want to square off at the right to quality of life. Quality of life is a term used mostly in Psyciatric and Geriatric circles.
I would argue that hospice and homelessness fall into similar catagories. In both there is only the hope of further illness and death.
Those of us who find ourselves in luckier circumstance might consider quality of life an issue to be tackled as well as its right.
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Everything and nothing changes
I see the sun coming up. I'm thinking of the warmer, less strenuous, days for the homeless. But their plight does not go away with the snow. They will still be in the shadows, hidden from our sight by our city planners and legislators.
Only we, as individuals, can know and help "the poor". They have names like "Mike" and "Larry". And faces like any other person living life with the hand that is dealt them.
This Lent I want to give change to the poor. And the change will be in me.
Only we, as individuals, can know and help "the poor". They have names like "Mike" and "Larry". And faces like any other person living life with the hand that is dealt them.
This Lent I want to give change to the poor. And the change will be in me.
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