Imbolc Valentine Moon
Checked in a couple of weeks ago on a friend’s step-son equivalent convicted of murder three years ago. How’s Nick doing, I asked. 3 years in; 3 years to go. He’s still the “head ape.” Still cautious. Hungry for intelligent conversation. ” the boredom and the inability to have any one with a brain to talk to ” Apparently his mom’s monthly money gives him enough food to maintain his health and put warm clothes on his back. As my friend says, the basics. She worries about him all the time.
Think about Nick as you go about your business today. Making choices, bad or good, about what to do next, where to go next. What you might have for lunch. There are those, and they are multitudes, for whom those oh so casually engaged moments count as luxuries far out of reach.
