4 Comments Posted by Gyphrian

My family bought some of these kinds of mattresses from a surplus medical supply company to use at our cabin (read 'grotty hovel we go to a couple of times a year for no good reason'). They aren't any more comfortable than they look.

I love how the top of the basketball hoop echoes the curves of the windows.

Sorry, guys, but in the 1918 picture all I see is what was probably a bit of fluff and/or dust on the lens during development...

I've worked in a darkroom, and have also spent hours and hours taking out things like this from wedding pictures as a profession. Take my word for it. Dust.

The hard thing about being homeless is that to get a place to live, you need a bank account, and money. To get a bank account, you need proof of address - which you can't get unless you have a home. To get a job, you need an employment history and references, both things that you'd be lacking for the duration of your homelessness. Homeless people are no longer a part of society, and it is hard even for someone completely healthy mentally to start over basically from scratch. In many cases, it's impossible without outside assistance, and that assistance can be hard to find.

I've never been homeless, but I know people who have, and for all of them the hardest thing has been re-entering society. These were people without mental illnesses or drug problems, just people who had sufficient financial hardship that they were unable to afford somewhere to live.