Guest Host Alan Ray: The best guess is that there are about 10,000 homeless men, women and children on the streets of San Diego on any given night.
Unless you've been there, you really can't imagine what it's like to be homeless, how it smells. There is a tension to being homeless. Whom should you trust? And the longer you're homeless, the more you feel your dignity diminish and your prospects dim. Most of us go through every day with a certainty we take for granted -- the certainty of knowing where you're going to sleep at night. Take away that certainty, and much of your life becomes untethered.
Most of us are lucky enough that we'll never know that uncertainty. But, you could get a small taste of it in a program coming up this Saturday and Sunday night called "Sleepless in San Diego." It's sponsored by the San Diego Rescue Mission.
Sleepless in San Diego will take place this Saturday, April 28th, at the San Diego Community Concourse downtown. For more information about the event, go to sdrescue.org .
Guest
- Herb Johnson, president and CEO of the San Diego Rescue Mission.
