Half-day Friday

I took a half-day off today so I can show my mom around the City. We went to the usual San Francisco tourist spots: Golden Gate Bridge, Palace of Fine Arts, Twin Peaks, etc. She's really impressed on how clean the streets are and she was amazed that there were no street vendors like they do in Manila. But I just smiled, coz 3 weeks from now, I will be taking her to the inner city where the urban poor, street people and street vendors are. She will smell the stench of the homeless and I can guarantee, that smell will always be imbedded in memory. And hopefully, it will fill her soul with the same compassion I felt when I walked the streets of the homeless.