June 3 - Abandoning My Father Talking Blues

This is, as John says, when it starts, a sad one. It's about people who have no choice and the choices that get made for them. It's about things that are presented as opportunities and are actually just mitigations. It's about sandboxes in parking lots and the ever present silent threat of things being worse.

I've been through many things in my life. Everyone has, that's why they call it a life. But I'm quietly glad that I've never felt unsafe in the place where I've lived. I've felt depressed and hopeless, I've cried as I was trying to get to sleep, I've laid awake and been terrified of school the next day. But the home itself was always a place where I was loved even if I wasn't understood. Where my parents would never hurt me on purpose and were usually mortified to have hurt me by accident.

I'm glad I never had to leave home except by choice. I'm glad that where I lived when I was young was always home. And may the sorrow and horror of those for whom this wasn't true pass quickly and become better things.