01-21-2007, 01:33 PM
I had an eye opening experience on the homeless situation. My son ran away from home for one week last summer. We didn't know where he was but someone said he was roaming around in Kona. One day, when after the ordeal was over and he returned home, we were driving past an area in Kona that just looked like a bunch of bushes. He said, "Ma, that's where I lived when I ran away". I said wot? What did you eat and what did you do. He said there is a whole community of homeless living in those bushes. They knew he was a runaway and fed him. It gave me another perspective of the homeless. People who had no roof over their heads, shared their food with my son. It is scary and the situation doesn't seem to change since land is unaffordable and rents are ridiculously high. It is a very sad situation.