Hi there, RVA

Hello, Richmond Virginia,

These days are hot and nights are cool. Cats sit on porches in the Fan. It is first Friday and the famous art walk is at hand. I've gotta say, Richmond, you are full of extremely beautiful women. So many beautiful women you hold, you are starting to look like an extension of Miami without the cocaine. Yet your streets remain full of homeless and your alleys full of piss, candy wrappers, and cigarette butts. Three things I would like to see that might make you a better place to be in:

1. I would like some of your parking meters be turned into donation boxes for homeless services.
2. I would like to see free books, many children's books, in the small parks hidden around the city.
3. I would like the alleyways were parking is prohibited to be beautified with partial light flowers and fragrant herbs.

I don't think this is much to ask for. The hardest one I can think of is the following one: Give the homeless an opportunity to: a) play music; or b) participate in sports.

So many souls are left to roam your streets without definite routes, blending into the landscape, forgotten. You see small drops of humanity in the cigarettes they share behind walls off Belvidere. One walks in drunk onto the Ipanema patio, his pants stained smelling of feces. Before he utters a word, and as I stare at the dollar tip on the table, the bar tender walks out and whispers a few words to make him leave. He leaves carrying, his scent trailing each step in his path. What a cruel instant; to think he was once a child always strikes my soul.

Where is the potential of these destitute human beings? What hells do they carry in their souls? Their dignity was served in a broken glass, and now they silently mourn. They are not hustlers out of choice; each time they request change is a new tactic, a new story. They reinvent each moment. The story that brings in the quarter becomes the norm.

Learn about child development, so much of your future balance hangs on the first five years of your life.

Improve your Business Website, Please

Today, looking for a happy hour special, I looked into the websites of those businesses I admire, and was surprised to find no word about this ritualistic event. Plenty of menus, but no happy hours. wtfrva?