“ Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don't feel comfortable in our own skin. ”
Are you willing to care enough to get hurt?
~ Michele Mcknight Baker
Lord bless this land, and all who inhabit it. Bless the earth. 'Tis borrowed from you after all. Let the work be fit worship to You. Grant us safety as we work. Grant us favor against any untoward spirits. Jealousy. Greed. Bigotry. Chance paused. Even such as shadows my own heart. Forgive my tresspasses as I forgive.
Then the vulture swooped down and away, racing the LeTort spring to the Conodoguinet Creek from there to the Susquehanna river and from there to the sea. Same river my ancestors took to reach the places where they hunted and farmed and buried their dead.
That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem