"I'm getting my life together now" || SpeakReel PeeWee || Tenderloin, San Francisco
Channel: Speak Reel
Date: 2015-02-01

The Tenderloin is a part of San Francisco that gets a bad rap. Yeah, its tough. But I've almost met some of the kindest, positive, keen, and resilient people out there. One thing about the Tenderloin in San Francisco that always amazed me is that sob stories don't seem to exist. If someone is homeless in the Tenderloin, traumatic events and struggles are casually mentioned and treated as commonplace. My tour guide "Walter" really helped me out with interviewing people, and I super super super appreciate him for that.

I really liked this interview with PeeWee. He's a very transparent person and when I asked if he was ok with me putting this on the internet he said "I have nothing to hide". He takes us through his whole life in the course of a few short minutes. He has been through a lot of trials and tribulations and he's a survivor. Just being homeless or in and out of homelessness requires such an incredible amount of strength and credit is almost never given to people for that. So much of the conversation around homelessness is accusatory. Hopefully, through seeing interviews such as PeeWee's, we can begin to change the way we treat those who are down on their luck. 

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