I recently became part of a committee whose mission is to remember, in a tangible way, homeless people who’ve died in King County. I don’t know the folks this project strives to remember, so why does this project speak to me?
Over the past 12 years, the Homeless Remembrance Project Committee has developed and installed a Tree of Life gathering place in Victor Steinbrueck Park and bronze Leaves of Remembrance. The leaves, inscribed with names of the fallen, are scattered in sidewalks throughout the city — 155 so far in 10 locations. ...