[MD] THE TOWER

[MarshaV]

At 02:26 AM 9/30/2008, you wrote:

>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.
>

Greetings SA,

I am not wishing harm to anyone.  I wish all peace & wisdom, love & 
trust.  I wish empathy, compassion and hope.

Marsha





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