Jim Does Summer #7

Jim. 

        Jim Steele to be precise...

                 is my homeless brutha from a different mutha! 

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Here, last Spring is Jim Steele enjoying the rest of his breakfast and his Bloody Marys

A still from the video of him below. Another homeless man entertains with the sidewalk piano.

    I've known Jim for...well.... let's see, I'm pushing 60, and I met him in my early 20's while he was attending a college on the northern shore of the Long Island Sound. 

22.

    I was 22 when I met Jim. Then, as Jim now-I was homeless. Jim took me in. I've known Jim for almost 40 years. Jim has been homeless-so to speak, for about the last 20 of those sun circles.

PS:

    I'm blogging again, after a 15 or so year absence. This blog is my training blog and Jim is an interesting subject as his circumstances change often so why not a blog about wandering Jim Steele.

     One day Jim is living under a bridge on the Southern Oregon coast, burning construction material to stay warm while the rain pours for weeks around him, and another day he is living in a 5 level house perched on a steep Los Angeles hill with successful attorneys.

    Summers, at least the last 7 or so summers he has lived with me. Like a blue blood he spends his winter in the mild southern climate of LA and he summers along the New England coast fishing, camping and telling changing stories of days gone by.