February 19

It’s late and I have a head cold. I have a heated bed and multiple pillows. A bathroom is just a few feet away. 

My thoughts go to my homeless friends, many staying in shelters tonight surrounded by strangers and lacking privacy, is there a box of Kleenex next to their beds? Water and cough medicine? Many others would rather face the cold then suffer the indignities of bunker style sleeping. I know I like sleeping where my snorts and jerks go unnoticed by others!  

I looked up the meaning of your name this evening. Theodore - Gods gift. I’m sure your mother rejoiced in having a son, Gods gift. She saw something special in you. Isn’t time you show the poorest of your city that special gift? Perhaps Compassion and humility and compromise?

Frani