David PrestonA homeless man scrounges through a Dumpster on 2nd and Columbia in downtown Seattle, looking for flattened cardboard boxes to use as mattress and blanket.
I was returning from a public meeting on homelessness and had looked into this nook 
moments earlier, figuring it was the kind of place a homeless man might like to bed down in. Finding it vacant, I trotted to across the street to wait for my bus, but no sooner did I look back at the Dumpster than I saw this fellow doing his thing. He must have been just a few paces behind me.