[Magdalen] A New Year's Eve image.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

...and I hope that this man has had some benefit from his location, and 
perhaps gave thought to the many who passed him by.

peace
Lynn

website: www.ichthysdesigns.com

When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "M J _Mike_ Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 7:13 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] A New Year's Eve image.

> For a few days, maybe for a week or more, a homeless fellow has been 
> camped out alongside my neighborhood CVS, and on a side that's visibly 
> public.  Normally, CVS keeps such individuals moving, so as not to 
> distress the patrons.  But for the time I've mentioned, he's not only 
> there, but encamped.  I've been meaning to ask the management how the 
> decision was made to let the fellow stay.  But in the end, I consider it a 
> signal act decency on the part of management, to let the shopping cart 
> tent stay, for God and everyone to see, and not send him off to who knows 
> where.  (He's been everyplace, so I have some idea where he'd go, and it 
> wouldn't necessarily be better.)