Saturday, December 20, 2008

Don't forget to count Blessings

A reminder to myself as much as anything...to count my blessings. to appreciate the life I've been able to find/make for myself and my family....and to realize what I'm working hard for....


Lots of people...even in America...even in California....don't even have a place to call home.

The signs, Tull said, are everywhere: from the father who pretends to work through the night at a computer at a 24-hour office supply center so his child can sleep safe and warm in a stroller to the mother who takes a baby to the emergency room at 11 p.m., knowing the odds are they won't be called until morning and can pass the night in the waiting room.Even in good times, Los Angeles County -- the most populous in the nation -- has more homeless people than any other metropolitan region in the country. According to a count taken almost two years ago, before the recession began, there were 73,000 people without homes on any given night