Ellen, you have a heart of gold...it's amazing isn't it, that if we just give ourselves room to imagine, "what if I were in their shoes?" it changes it a little- while I too now, living with such little green space, would also miss the one spot that was to be "share" among many...

ugh - it's so hard. And yet -- they're humans, and goodness, just trying to survive. I love how you said: they were a part of my community. Touching.

Excellent article---- what we are doing, creating the huge chasm between the have and have nots, as you well said -- is tragic, it's inhumane. Ugh.

Thanks for passing the word -- for a more compassionate world.