What a hard rain brings to mind

Too rainy today for taking a decent walk at lunchtime so I went a few blocks from the office to a bookstore I hadn't visited before. They had both new and used book sections and even some kind of museum in the back. Of course I'm looking for used SciFi books. They had a small selection of maybe six shelves of paperbacks. Most copies of the authors I'm interested in were books I have or have read. One of them was "Green Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson which I just started reading Sunday night. After leaving there I stopped into "Coffee By Design" for a dark roast Grande and took a seat to spend the rest of my lunch hour writing. When it's raining like it is I notice the Portland street people more than on a moderate weather day as a lot of people that like to get out and about don't when it's this wet. Several of the street folk asked for spare change including a couple of apparently able body young adults. I'm sure all of them have a reason, some better than others to be hitting up passerbyers for spare change. If it's because they've hit hard times, well and good. I hope they find themselves in better straits soon. If it was me could I find a means to prevent myself from following their course of action. I'd like to think so. As for those who can't or won't I at least hope there's a meal and a safe place to sleep tonight.