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June 2009: Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. How true. Those of us, who are successful and well embedded in society like to look forward to an even brighter future. However, sitting in our modern, comfortable cars, a glance into the mirror may remind us of an important truth. The object in the center of the mirror is a so-called homeless person. I have known him to dwell in this particular spot in a street in San Diego for at least nine months. He, like all the other homeless people, seems to be far away from us. Looking back on our lives, we don't think that being like him is among the plausible futures that we can imaging for us. But no, we are warned: objects in the mirror are closer than they appear - no matter how far they seem to be. In the American society failure is one of the plausible futures for each of us, and failure in this society often means falling through the holes in the perforated floor of society and ending up in the basement of society with no easy road for return - like the object in the picture.


Photo by Shelley-Ann Jules-Plag, June 15, 2009.

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