Wednesday, December 6, 2006


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HOMELESS
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Yesterday morning, I wrote about love and my perceived lack of it in our nation.
Yesterday afternoon, early for an appointment, I stopped off in our town's brand-new teen-center, just to see what it was like. I was shocked to find a messy place without carpets.......where coats and other belongings just got thrown all over the dirty floor.......where kids sat motionless, staring mutely at computer screens while playing endless, repetitive, brain-destroying
knock-em-down-and-build-em-up-again
games.

There was no music.
There was no art.
There was nowhere to produce or play any music,
and
there was no place to create any art.

The teens didn't talk to each other.
There were no chairs or couches or corners for any small or large groups that might have wanted to talk.

There was only 1 female teen present, and about 25 to 30 male teens, many of whom stayed outside, where they raced up and down the skateboard ramps without helmets, kneecaps, or other forms of protection.

This center was so profoundly uncared-for and sad, that I started to softly repeat the word
HOMELESS
to myself, while understanding why all those kids were keeping themselves from feeling anything, by being frantically and continuously busy. It also dawned on me that this was not a "teen-center" as advertised, but a place where mothers dumped their children, so they themselves, could be free.
I wondered where all their female children were hanging out, and if this "males only" thing was yet one more symptom of our male-hating era?

LOVE = CARING

CARING = IS TAKING CARE OF THE NEEDS
of a child
of a house
of a car
of a spouse
of a teen center

Just as Americans are literally freezing to death in the Midwest, this week, because the power is out and their government has simply neglected to take care of America's worn-out power grids.........so millions of mothers are simply neglecting to provide a safe and warm home for the children they brought into this world, thereby rendering all of them
frantic
crazed
frightened
and

HOMELESS

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