From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V10 #117 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Thursday, June 11 2009 Volume 10 : Number 117 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] "Juggler Out on YouTube" [Carol Love ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:44:55 -0400 From: Carol Love Subject: Re: [RS] "Juggler Out on YouTube" On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:26 AM, wrote: > Starting to think that YouTube may be the only place I get to see Richard > again. Here's another video from the Netherlands; "Juggler Out in > Traffic." > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi_4Mk7smBU .....Wow. That is the best VISUAL quality I've seen in a RS YouTube video. He tells the back story that there ARE juggles out in traffic in Buenes Aires. I had always listened to this song thinking it's an analogy for all the people you see in American out in traffic holding up their cardboard signs and asking for change. But I would suspect he wanted American listeners to get that meaning. Don't you think?? I'll tell you, it makes me feel REALLY guilty when I have NFN in my CD player and I'm stopped at a light with one of those gentlemen staring me down. Take the lyrics: I used to go 'round for the change I'd go from car to car with my jester's cap in hand when I tried to catch your eye you'd always look away and rush to roll your window up I never lingered there for long time the light and move along but red go green and you'd go by That pretty much sums up the "exchange" as it happens in my city. My drive to work is all surface streets with major intersection so I pass at least 5-10 men every day on my way home. With the current economy, the number is growing. I never know what to do. Perhaps I should consider at least making eye contact. Truthfully, in this era of the debit card I rarely have change on me. Plus, working at a high school with 70% of our kids on free or reduced lunch not a day goes by without a student shaking me down for change for a coke or something from the snack machines. I kinda do my giving there. I believe that these folks are not "lazy". I think most of them have substance abuse issues or mental illness. Still, I honestly don't have $6-10 a day toll to come home. (No one is out in the morning as I set out before dawn...) Hope I don't start another big political kerfuffle, but what do other folks here do?? Sometimes I do give a dollar, but not always. Peace, ....Carol ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V10 #117 ************************************