Like Yourself
Geel is a charming town in Belgium with a unique population—a significant percentage of the people there have a diagnosis of mental illness. Host families to these persons are given no details of their guests’ diagnoses. Instead, they welcome their guests into the community like anyone else. “I have seen coffee served in a cafe with as much deference to actively hallucinating psychotics as to anyone else,” one observer described. Not surprisingly, people with mental illness flourish in Geel.
prison doors
I've been interviewing the homeless for a future book idea and met Greg about a month ago. Thinking of my new homeless friend who spent so much time in prison in the past, I pondered . . . we look so different from one another and our paths in life are so different from each other's, but are there any similarites? …
