[MD] THE TOWER

[Heather Perella]

  I wish peace, love, and compassion, too.

SA


--- On Mon, 9/29/08, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:

> From: MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [MD] THE TOWER
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 8:12 PM
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> .
> .
> 
> Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss, you'll land
> among the stars.........
> .
> . 
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