Our Friday Pick Of The Good....Sqwabb.

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Stanley Q. Woodvine, pictured above*,  writes and lives rough by choice in, mostly from what I can tell, the Fairview area of central Lotusland.

And when you read Stanley's stuff, either on his blog or his twitter feed, which he calls Sqwabb, you can see how hard homeless folks have to work just get through the days and, especially, sometimes, the nights.

I mean, so incredibly hard that I can't actually really imagine it.

But you can also see the joy and the beauty and the mundanity and the humanity and the camaraderie and the pathos and the poetry and, sometimes, even the good deeds for no immediately apparent reason at all*...

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*The image at the top of the post is from Chris Cheung's excellent profile of Mr. Woodvine in the Tyee in which it is revealed that he has been wiping down/sanitizing the recycling bin handles in an effort to try and help keep other binners safe.
When you read Stanley's stuff sometimes, even though he generally does not trumpet it, you can also see how easily we, the people with walls, etc. can be jerks to those less fortunate.
I get the 'SQW' part of Sqwabb but I have no idea what's up with the 'BB' part...
Oh, and before I (and the new publishers) forget....SQW also writes great stuff for the Georgia Strait as well.
Tip O' The Toque to reader Glen for his long ago heads-up on this one.


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