Comments on: Dignity not poverty http://www.marcoryanphotography.com/index.php/2009/12/dignity-not-poverty/ Marco Ryan - Travel and Landscape photographer based in Cairo, Egypt Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:59:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Marco Ryan http://www.marcoryanphotography.com/index.php/2009/12/dignity-not-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Marco Ryan Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:36:43 +0000 http://www.marcoryanphotography.com/?p=295#comment-224 Your small act will have made a lasting impression Your small act will have made a lasting impression

]]> By: Eli Reinholdtsen http://www.marcoryanphotography.com/index.php/2009/12/dignity-not-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Eli Reinholdtsen Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:04:51 +0000 http://www.marcoryanphotography.com/?p=295#comment-168 I had a similar experience this week. A man has been sleeping on the roof of the local powerstation for ten days and the temperature has been varying from 0 to -6 degrees. For then ten years I have lived here, I have never seen anyone sleep there. I've gone out with hot soup and foamy mattresses to sleep on. Socks and a woolen hat. then a summer duvet. And then the weather forecast predicted -13. I went out with an old down winter duvet and told him he had to start looking for a place to stay indoors. He told me he probably had an place the next evening. And then came the heartbreaking question: "How do I get in contact with you to give you your things back?". I told him if he could find use of the things he could take them with him. The next evening he was gone, and the spot was empty of things as he had never been there. I thought of the phrase "Ships that pass in the night". I do not know his name or nationality (we spoke english). Don't know where he came from and where he was going. And to him I was a stranger who ruined his sleep by waking him up every morning.:-) He does not know my name or where I live. Bu helping out felt really good. I had a similar experience this week. A man has been sleeping on the roof of the local powerstation for ten days and the temperature has been varying from 0 to -6 degrees.

For then ten years I have lived here, I have never seen anyone sleep there.

I’ve gone out with hot soup and foamy mattresses to sleep on. Socks and a woolen hat. then a summer duvet. And then the weather forecast predicted -13. I went out with an old down winter duvet and told him he had to start looking for a place to stay indoors. He told me he probably had an place the next evening.

And then came the heartbreaking question: “How do I get in contact with you to give you your things back?”.

I told him if he could find use of the things he could take them with him. The next evening he was gone, and the spot was empty of things as he had never been there.

I thought of the phrase “Ships that pass in the night”. I do not know his name or nationality (we spoke english). Don’t know where he came from and where he was going. And to him I was a stranger who ruined his sleep by waking him up every morning.:-) He does not know my name or where I live. Bu helping out felt really good.

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