If there were one thing about the Bay Area that you would change, what would it be?
Better care for all, which means access to food and nutrition, medicine, housing, jobs and technology. Sometimes I share food treats with people who are in tents or seem interested. For one gentleman camped out by a Safeway parking lot, we chatted for a while and I gave him cash and food. Then said, “When I was little, people would always say, ‘Jesus Loves You.’ I don’t believe in Jesus anymore, but I care about you.”
Maybe that was TMI for him. Awkward. Weird. Yet it was an attempt to show care. What I didn’t say was, “I wish you did not have to sit here. That I wasn’t worried about the last time you went to the bathroom, had a shower, or got something to eat. You seem like you may be, what, seventy-five? Deserving of a warm and comfortable place.”
