The Mission is a neighborhood that is easy to appreciate and fall deeply in love with. It's real and doesn't attempt to present itself as something it isn't. The love it has to give is deep and can't really be explained but instead must be observed, witnessed and experienced in order to develop an admiration and understanding of it. The diversity of this neighborhood is vast. The people are all over the spectrum and seem to fit together in various ways, supporting one another either unconsciously or consciously to make a Mission version of the "circle of life".
Crime is on the forefront of most of our minds recently. More specifically, gang-related crime has been vividly and vigorously depicted in the media and has a lot of families and neighbors feeling fearful, uncomfortable and worried. I wanted to post this photo and say these words to remind us of the most important members of our society: the youth. They are waiting for us to do something, to say something, and to make some sense out of this for them.
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