B-roll footage shoot for my documentary resulted in a happy accident. Right at the end of capturing some time lapse of a building, Walter approached me. We started out talking about the Sears warehouse and retail store.
Soon conversation changed to what Walter was doing now. The video cuts out so I don't have the rest of his story on tape. He had a grocery sack tucked under his arm. He told me that he was headed over to a garage to spend the night. The owner told him it was OK for him to crash there.
Walter said he was enrolled in some classes at Urban Ventures. He told me he was trying to get his life back together and to get off the streets. I asked him what I could do to help him. He asked me to pray for him. We both did right then and there in the parking lot of the Midtown Exchange at 9:30 at night.
I have no idea where Walter is today. I am happy to have met him and heard his story.
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1 comment:
that's moving... When you start putting faces to homelessness and listening to the characters you star to want to change it.
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