This Santa is Homeless

If your not home this season chances are your homesick. I'm both - home and sick. I guess it was one too many airport delays, crying babies and pushy custom agents flying back from London Thursday. Still, I have nothing to complain about after having read about "Johnny Five" in the New York Times this morning. Johney Five is a fast-talking homeless schizophrenic that's been living below an abandoned train station near Yankee Stadium since 1986. 8 years ago he crawled out from his underworld to help a Bronx Nun deliver food to the homeless. They scale walls, hurl themselves over fences and struggle to reach other homeless living under bridges. They have come to rely on each other and to trust each other. He rhymes and raps like a pro and says he knows God personally. Watch the New York Times accompanying video and you'll get chills hearing how the homeless eventually decide to accept shelter on their own terms. In Johnney's case, “Old age caught me like a thief in the night,” he said. “My body is not the same.”