if you wanna sing out...

so, you probably don't know this about me...but i have a friend, Bob. He's a Vietnam vet and an ex-alcoholic and he has lived on the street for the past four years. I saw him probably every other month since I started working in the city four years ago. Bob likes coffee and so, when i would see him, I got him some. One Christmas, I brought him over the Gingerbread Latte from Starbucks because I liked it so much and I wanted him to be able to enjoy the joy of it. But today, when I ran into him, Bob wasn't sitting on the street with a lot of bags around him. He was standing. And his face wasn't dirty. He was clean-shaven and had a new haircut and was wearing new glasses. Bob told me he got a job in State College, and came back to visit his friend (who, incidentally, I realized I knew- small world). He has been clean and sober for the past four years. I was SO amazed. POWER!