[MD] THE TOWER

[Heather Perella]

Marsha:
> THE TOWER
> 'What's most important to remember is that the
> tearing down of this 
> structure, however painful, makes room for something new to
> be built.'


SA:
    I've been thinking about those youth that I worked with.  You remember those stories I gave about my experiences, Marsha and others here on the forum.  I saw fear, anger, and panic.  That's where my concern is.  I never saw so many people who had such extreme ways of dealing with change.  What do people have to fall back on?  What is new?  This is all speculative of course, but I also think back to a homeless person I met.  When I met him, he was no longer homeless, he was able to get a job somehow, if he told me about how he did get a job I don't remember right now, and he had a family.  I remember asking him while we were hunting for squirrels one day where he was homeless.  He said in a city in the southwest (again can't remember what city or state, not important for me at the moment to remember).  I asked him why he didn't go out and find food in the desert and go into the wilderness somewhere.  He said, "Good question.  I don't know."  I said
 all this food is here and you didn't go and look for it.  He said, "It wasn't something I thought about.  I didn't know about and think about those things."
     It was that simple.  It was a lack of awareness gone astray by the troubles at the times and not thinking of all this free food and he could have found a decent shelter too.  I talked to him about this, and he said it was just something he really didn't think about.
     These youth, the fear, the lack of coping with change, this homeless person.  Dots and dashes running through the mind.


woods,
SA

P.S.  Sorry Marsha.  I like the name Spiritual Adirondack.  It says something a little bit more about what I'm saying right off the bat than Nick is.