No homeless people in my life, for several days.

Not at the store, not at the corner and not on my street.

Not one.

But I am reading a manuscript, for The Attic, by a New York writer.  Guess what it is about?

Homelessness. 

And yes, it's pretty good.

Here's a quote from Lee Stringer, that fronts her book: "I don't know what's to be done about (homelessness) except to find what your relationship is to it.  I think that's the only work...I mean, how as human beings do we relate to one another."  ~ Lee Stringer, Like Shaking Hands with God.

Stringer is a writer who lived, homeless and crack-addicted, on the streets of New York City from the early eighties until the mid-nineties.   

He is a former editor and columnist of Street News and his writing has appeared in many publications including The Nation, The New York Times and Newsday.