It is easy in this fast pased life that we live to overlook the tragedies going on around us. We get lost in the malestrom of keeping a job, paying the bills, keeping the kids out of trouble and just plain trying to make it in a world that seems to be contriving against us.

You see the Homeless on the streets of your city and you block them out or just allow them to becaome faceless blurs because you have more important things to attend to. Those people are nobodies and they will have an effect on nothing or nobody. the world would be better off without them.

But stop right there for one moment, do not move let me show you something that possibly you did not know.

Our world is rich in culture on many levels and much of that culture have come from people that have been homeless at some point in their lives. Read below and be amazed.

John Drew Barrymore . . . actor; father of actress Drew Barrymore (streets/shelters).

Halle Berry . . . Oscar-winning and Emmy Award-winning actress (shelter in New York City) (sources: Reader's Digest, April 2007, cover story: "Halle Berry: From homeless shelter to Hollywood fame." Page: 89: RD: "Is it true that when you moved to New York to begin your acting career, you lived in a shelter?" Berry: "Very briefly. ...I wasn't working for a while. RD: "How old were you then?" Berry: "I probably was about 21. But a girl had to do what a girl had to do. You can do that when you're 21 and ambitious, and your eyes are this big and you don't want to go home." / US magazine, April 22, 2007: "Halle Berry was homeless. Berry slept at a shelter in NYC after her mom refused to send her money.") .

Danny Bonaduce . . . actor; radio-show host; American author (car, just before beginning his radio career).

John Green Brady (John G. Brady) . . . governor of Alaska 1897-1906 (streets of New York City during his childhood; sent west on one of many "orphan trains," accompanied on this particular trip by future North Dakota governor Andrew Burke).

Buddha (Gautama Siddhartha) . . . religious leader; source for Buddhism; Enlightened One in the Buddhism religion (outdoor camping).


Lena Cardwell . . . actress-singer (train, bus, and subway terminals in New York City for two years as a child with her mother).

Jim Carrey . . . actor-writer-producer-comedian (yellow VW van in various Canadian locations with older brother John Carrey, older sister Rita Carrey, and parents Percy Carrey and Kathleen Carrey/outdoor camping in a tent with his family in the backyard of the home of his older married sister, Patricia Carrey).

Charlie Chaplin . . . Oscar-winning actor-writer-director-producer; British-born author; knighted (streets of London during his childhood after his father died and his mother suffered a mental breakdown).

Troy Donahue . . . actor (temporary shelters/outdoor camping in Central Park in New York City).

Ella Fitzgerald . . . Grammy Award-winning singer; U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (streets of Harlem in New York City for a year while a teenager just before she won an amateur singing talent contest at the Apollo Theater).

Cary Grant . . . . Oscar-winning actor (streets of Southampton, England during a summer in his youth at the time of World War I) (source: book, Cary Grant: A Biography, by Marc Eliot, 2004, page 31: "Archie then volunteered for summer work as a messenger and gofer on the military docks, often sleeping in alleys at night if he didn't make enough money to rent a cot in a flophouse.").

Harry Houdini . . . magician; escape artist; paranormal investigator; Hungarian-born American author (streets/outdoor camping/temporary shelters; left home at age 12 in search of work and traveled for two years on his own, making his way from Wisconsin to Missouri and settling finally in New York City).

Don Imus . . . radio-show host; photographer; best-selling American author (between the dryers in a Laundromat in Hollywood, California).

Burl Ives . . . Oscar-winning actor; Grammy Award-winning folk singer; American author (freight trains/outdoor camping; hitchhiked in the 1930s while in his early 20s across America, Canada, and Mexico).

Jesus of Nazareth (Yeshua of Nazareth) . . . religious leader; source for Christianity; the Christ; God and Savior in the Christian religion (outdoor camping/temporary shelters).

"The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head." Matthew 8:20, Luke 9:58).

im Morrison . . . singer-songwriter; poet; lead singer and lyricist for the 1960s rock band "The Doors"; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (with The Doors) (rooftops/cars/under the pier at Venice Beach, California/friends' couches).

George Orwell . . . British author (shelter).

Gordon Parks . . . film director (Shaft, Super Cops, etc.); "Life" magazine photographer; best-selling American author (empty trolley cars at night while a teenager after his mother died).

Debbie Reynolds . . . Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actress-singer; American author (car for awhile after her divorce in 1973 from Harry Karl, as mentioned in her autobiography). Photo: TV Guide.

Joan Rivers . . . Emmy Award-winning television talk-show host; TV-radio show host; best-selling American author; comedienne (car).

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Tupac Shakur . . . actor; rap music star (homeless shelters).

William Shatner . . . Emmy Award-winning actor-director; best-selling Canadian-born American author (truck bed camper for a time due to financial difficulties after the 1969 cancellation of the television series Star Trek, in which he starred)

Martin Sheen . . . Emmy Award-winning actor-director-producer (New York City subway while a young struggling actor).

Colonel" Harland Sanders . . . businessman; founder-spokesperson of the "Kentucky Fried Chicken" fast-food restaurant chain (homeless at age 10 when his mother remarried and he left home due to altercations with his stepfather/car as an adult; slept in the backseat nightly because he could not afford lodging as he traveled around the United States and Canada, sometimes with his wife Claudia, trying to sign up restaurants to use his special fried chicken recipe for a franchise licensing fee).

The list goes on and on for pages and pages. Now think for a moment while you are standing there that Homeless person that you passed on the street the other day the one that you averted your eyes from thinking that he was about to look you in the face. Is it possible the he might have the algorythm for a cure for cancer in his head, might he at some point in time have the capacity to have a great effect on your children's future? Could he poosiblybe a high contributor to the welfare of the world if he was only given the opportunity?

Think about it for a moment , think about all the Homeless people that have died in drainage ditches, from over exposure, think of the ones that ou use to see out of the corner of your eye and you don't see them any more but you do see the stuff of their lives where it has alwys been. Could you have helped that person if you had you would have helped not only yourself  but you would have helped the world become a better place for not only ourselves but also for those that will come after.
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