Tuesday, April 08, 2003

So I’m in a meeting

So I’m in a meeting and we’re talking about a program that provides social workers for homeless people in San Francisco.  Some of these social workers are former clients of the agencies now providing these services; they’re the previously homeless, the previously drug-addicted, the previously emotionally challenged, back on their collective feet and combing the waterfront to find others in need of similar services.  These potential clients/current hard luck cases hanging out by the docks of the bay are on my mind because today somebody (heh) busted a gas main (heh heh) next to our building and we had to evacuate for about two hours today.  I almost never leave the building, so this was a welcome opportunity for me to reacquaint myself with my daytime neighborhood, just one block from the docks where the aforementioned hard luck cases often gather.  I saw them there today on my gas break (giggle hee); they were, as ever, squinting into the sun from their vantage at the end of the long wharves extending into the bay.  Hours later we’re discussing these guys, and others like them who help them, in a meeting.  I get to thinking, this project could really change the face of pier advocacy.