A few days in the life

Tomorrow I'm attending a 'revamped' version of a national non-profit's local chapter for street outreach for youth. Upcoming projects include awareness engagements as well as a '48 hours' of people 'living' on the streets.

Will they bring their best night cream or smoking pipe?

I've seen and heard the rhetoric on this issue before, good intentioned people doing these 'camp outs'. Coordinated games like 'wake the bum', 'take their shoes while sleeping'. All BS to me.

And that's what I intend on telling the people wanting to be volunteers. They're wanting to engage kids that've had to do horrendous things to survive. Some of these men don't know what it's like for a young teen male to have to use his body. Some of the women don't know what it's like either.

A lot of kids I know coming from the LGBT arena aren't 'represented' to these self proclaiming 'good folk'. Myself, I'd rather see two people with the nerve to stand up for kids rather than ten people waste the time of the coordinator not paid for engaging wannabees.