CHRISTMAS | RETRO
Homelessness During the Christmas Season
Homelessness During the Christmas Season
Notes from the Editor-Christmas time is fast approaching us. Black Friday is right around the corner so why not post a Christmas story?
You’re fast asleep in your warm bed when you hear a noise. Your children burst into the room and try to convince you — successfully — to start the day.
They drag you out of bed and down the stairs before you can even wipe the sleep from your eyes. The lights on the tree are blinking in syncopation with each other and the ornaments are basking in the glow.
The kids are so full of energy you wonder where they got it from . . . even the dogs are excited!
Not everybody has a warm bed on Christmas (or any other day for that matter). Someone will be crawling out from under a cardboard box in an alleyway, somebody will sleeping under a bridge or an overpass, and somebody will be sleeping in a homeless shelter (he’s the lucky one). A warm bed is something we take for granted on a daily basis.
A good night sleep is very hard to pull off when you’re homeless. You’re never completely asleep when you’re living on the streets, every little noise wakes you, and if you live in a city like Atlanta, it never…
