Piece Comment

Review of Life on the Outside


Pristine, professional production - traditional "trac-and ac" NPR style news reporting at its best. The reporter captures lovely details, from the succinct expression of the homeless man's appreciation of life on the upside - "beautiful. Clean clothes, a place to sleep. Lately I've just been so glad to be alive," to the downside, "I don't know. I don't...know. Around" when asked where he's been. I am as fascinated by the careworkers on the job as I am by the subjects themselves - and being sinside their experience takes us - well (I'll speak for myself) - ME to a basic place where I bottom line place I feel profoundly called to over and over.