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When I was about ten years old, my father took me to a Major League Baseball game in a large city. Walking into and out of the stadium that day, I noticed multiple homeless people, and one man, in particular, had caught my attention. The man had acquired a shopping cart, the kind that you typically find at supermarkets, and it was filled with what I assumed were all of his belongings. Among other things, he had a sleeping bag, a pillow, and several jugs of water in the cart. He and his cart were stationed underneath the overpass of an overhead roadway, at the top of an embankment about ten feet above the sidewalk on which we were walking. He had other items spread along the ground around him, including a small hibachi that I assumed he used to cook things. He looked like a typical homeless person: disheveled, unshaven, and unhappy. Initially, I was struck by his resourcefulness as I considered what his daily life must have been like. He was under the bridge, which probably kept him dry, but where did he get food from? What did he do when he needed to use a bathroom? What did he do in the winter when it got really cold?
I came to the obvious conclusion that his life must have been extremely unpleasant. Over the years since that day, I’ve occasionally found myself trying to look at life like he lived it. For instance, if I come across a park bench that is protected from rain by some natural or man-made structure, I might determine that the bench would be an acceptable place to hunker down, at least temporarily. As I go through the exercise in my head, I view it as if I were the one who was homeless. If I had to, I think to myself, would this location work? That day as a ten-year-old, I was already well aware of the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I concluded then – as I continue to conclude now – […]
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When I left my cushy corporate job in 2017, I did so knowing that my family would have to make sacrifices. But I couldn’t continue to watch the nation slip into oblivion and was inspired by President Trump’s willingness to fight the good fight even at his own personal expense. What I didn’t realize then is that conservative media would be so heavily attacked, canceled, and defunded that the sacrifices would be extreme.
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