Maximo – our friend from the park – He went into the hospital for lung cancer treatment in the fall. We received word this week that he died. I remember the last real conversation we had before he told us he had cancer. It was very sincere. Maximo was legitimately concerned about his life and seemed unsatisfied. We’re planning on being at his memorial service this Wednesday in the city.

...we saw Elen tucked away in the nook on the outside of a building. "Everyone says I'm crazy," she expressed, "but I'm NOT!" Elen had tried to get help numerous times but was very wounded from the way she had been treated. At first she was laying down, but then she sat up to talk to us. Her bottom half was covered with a trash bag. She didn't have shoes and as she adjusted I saw that she only had boxer shorts on, no pants. It was February... (Don't Walk By outreach 2012)

always hear about it, but I had never actually seen it until now... homeless people living under the shelter of cardboard boxes... against the closed doors of a building on a city street... wrenching (Don't Walk By outreach 2012)