Our Neighbors On The Streets: A Social Justice Perspective

                                                                        A Quiet Kindness on the Corner:   What One Man and His Cats Taught Me About Compassion By Wayne Martin Mellinger The first time I saw him, I almost walked right past. He sat cross-legged beneath a faded awning on Milpas Street, his back pressed against the chipped brick of an old storefront. To the rush of midday traffic and the hum of the city, he was just another man without a home. But something made me pause — not his posture, not his ragged clothes, but the stillness around him. At his feet, five cats nestled in tight circles of fur and breath. Some were sleeping, some were eating, and one, a mottled gray with torn ears, was perched on his lap like a prince. They were not strays in that moment. ...