Strength and Vulnerability employs strong visual imagery to highlight emotions and reach the soul of the reader. whose utilizing many years of experience volunteering to help out those living on the streets and in make shift shelters in the growing metropolis of Surrey, BC. This two-part collection uncovers the human soul's emotional pursuit of balance in lives often weighed down with negativity. Through his words, we understand the struggle is universal, despite reflexive efforts to present a stoic exterior.Here is a poetic tribute to the poignant experiences of people who live in the shadows around us, whose needs to be loved and respected are every bit as legitimate as those of their more conventionally successful counterparts. Here is poverty, pain, and most of all compassion.