A Good Feeling

One year ago today, I was sitting in a seat at one of San Luis Obispo’s movie houses: The Palm Theatre.

It was the week of the SLO International Film Festival. I had been invited to the debut showing of a documentary on homelessness. The film was called Suckerfish. The reason for the invitation? I had been one of the film’s interviewees and both José Lemus, the film’s director, and his wife, Mary Garcia-Lemus, the film’s producer, asked me to attend.