Written by Miles Whitener
Preface: Asking Why
Most people never ask why. They see the shouting, the shaking hands, the small thefts, the bottles and needles — but not the story that led there. They see homelessness as failure, not consequence. They rarely ask what had to break before a person broke with the world.
Homelessness is not simply the absence of a roof. It is the condition of being unseen. It begins long before someone sleeps outside and can linger long after they come in from the cold. It is what happens when belonging is lost — when the world stops asking why.
These reflections — The Rising Pool, The Law of the Wild, and Dark Philosophies — are my attempt to answer that question. To describe not only what can be seen, but what is felt: the mind adapting, surviving, and sometimes surrendering to life at the edges of society.
