So I get asked fairly often, how and why I thought up this project. Well, with the morbid economy, a job market with about as much action as watching grass growing gets, and myself in the middle of all this, stuck like hundreds of thousands of others, I figured I should make some good come of my situation. Yes, as of this moment, and for some time now, I am functionally homeless. I have a place to stay for a short bit, due to the extreme kindness of some friends, but it is short term. I know I will be back out, with no roof or direct help, and plan to make something real of it. I am going to embrace it, delve into it and explore the difficulties, the hardships, the prejudices, pains and pleasures of being without. A strange sort of scavenger on the edges of society. Still interacting, yet not a contributing part of.
Along the way, I will document this strange transition, what I see, what I learn, what I experience. Some of which will be regular updates here. Most of which will go into a book. Through this all, I will learn what I can and must about this lifestyle, I will have no choice, there is no net to fall back on, as there is not for so many others, and I will learn, I am certain, about myself. I will take this information, these collected experiences, and put them to work helping others, others who have no homes, either by circumstance, or by choice. Homelessness is an issue, and it is one that needs addressing, maybe not even solving, but addressing none the less.
I invite you to follow me on this journey, and by all means, help out if you like.
Brian
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