Wayside Stories

Dear Inner Circle, It’s a funny time of year, right now in the blur between Christmas and New Year, when the rush and adrenaline of

Dear Inner Circle,   Much has been done, and there is still much to do. It isn’t our job to finish all the tasks of healing

Dear Inner Circle, Together the world’s population recently crossed the eight billion mark, and it would serve us well to take a moment of pause

Dear Inner Circle,   It is quite a sight to behold – the sheer amount of planning that goes into putting together our Christmas Day Street

Dear Inner Circle, In the eighties and nineties many in our community were living through the time when HIV/AIDS first arrived at our shores. There

Dear Inner Circle, As soon as November 1st rolls around, I’m asked the same question, in a thousand different ways – “Will the Christmas Day

Dear Inner Circle, In one of the less divine ironies of having three musically-talented siblings who can sing exotic, soul-stirring harmonies (replete with matching names

Dear Inner Circle, Wayside’s mission is built on the observation that people are lonely – not the kind of loneliness that is simply lack of

Dear Inner Circle,   In an act of desperation to save his son from a summer of obsolescence after completing year 12, my father decided which

Dear Inner Circle,  If the smallest human unit is two rather than one, then perhaps one of the reasons western society renders us as lonely