Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Speaking with the residents

When I drove to the Luke Krohn projects I had my daughter with me. She didn't say anything at first but after I interviewed a young resident about 25 years old with 6 children, my daughter asked me if people really lived in small places like this with a lot of children. That made me sad and happy at the same time. Happy because I have been blessed to afford a beautiful home and sad because I have sheltered her from the truth of this world. The lady I interviewed spoke about living in this project or another as if she had no options. She was very comfortable with her place in life and seen nothing wrong with it. She obviously loved her children and was thinking she may have one on the way, but she was calm in the fact that she was placed on earth to have babies and it will be her job to make sure her children make it out of there with more sense than she seemed to have.

I didn't know what to say or even think at that point.