While in Amsterdam to retrieve my lost mobile phone, I happened to meet Maria selling the Daklozekrant ("Homeless Person's Journal") on Metro line 53. Perhaps because Maria has a smile that would light up the darkest night, she has the gift -- in an environment in which any kind of panhandling usually annoys -- to engage in conversation those whom she's inviting to buy the paper. And then there's that astounding wig, a major work of art...
-- Jim
3 comments:
Now THAT's a wig! What a great smile!
Having had extensive dealings with homeless people in New Orleans and Omaha, I consider myself something of a connoisseur of transients, at least in the U.S. But she trumps them. I wonder if her paper was any good? I know at least one New Orleans bohemian personality relocated to Amsterdam after the deluge: John Sinclair who hosts radio free amsterdam.
It's an excellent paper -- well written, well edited and nicley laid out.
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