MAKE LAUGHTER THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN STRANGERS ~
Sometimes people who have nothing have everything they need. Near a North Sea oil port, I came face to face with unrehearsed survival. Speed walking through a gritty quarter of Hull, England, I nearly tripped over a rhetorically blessed drifter, living in an urban lean-to, adrift in reverie. After sharing a few canned ales, our conversation swayed to the contents of his tattered olive rucksack. As he fished each item out, he surrendered multi-colored histories […]