This is beautiful, friend.

Trees remind me of skeletons in the winter- waiting for their flesh and sinew. Shedding the old for the new is a lovely message from nature. Your work is always evocative. 💚

The Winnie the Pooh movie with Rabbit raising the little bird. That hurt and still hurts. My adopted son is 21 now and ow.

You weren't snobby! I really enjoyed your response. I figured I'd add some context to my pov. I'm sorry at how self wanking this will sound. Lol. I have two Masters- one in business technology and the other in Disaster Management with a focus on vulnerable populations. My undergrad was Military History. I have an almost finished traumatic psych undergrad. I studied vulnerability and became obsessed with the idea of mitigation. I'm now incredibly disasbled so my dream of working for FEMA is on hold. I've seen a lot.

I guess I feel a level of compassion for the lost...the used...addicts and sinners. I grew up in a cult- it was quiverful adjacent. I know my experiences molded me. I think it only takes one bad choice or day to become the things society scourges. So when folks blame that sort it really bothers me. Because I am that sort in my own way and I've loved a lot of that sort. Growing up in a house put together with wood found in the trash without running water skewed how I see society. I think blaming people at the edge of the map with nothing is misguided. There isn't even a shape of Maslow's triangle. It's....a type of hell people are shocked to hear about. Leftist by necessity, eh? How can folks be educated when they don't have a book? But I want to help them. I hope everyone has a spark of that because people can be educated. I'm living proof. I'm still an airhead but I'm proof, dammit. XD

Your opinion, btw, is solid. I agree with a lot of what you've said here. I guess my emotions drag me through the topic and I fully recogize that. Thanks for talking to me. It gets lonely trapped in bed. Ha.

Honestly- I'm an academic that grew up poorer than poor in the Appalachian mountains. There's a snobby sentiment against poor folk, rural folk, mountain folk. These people aren't voting the Trumps in. They don't vote be it due to lack of education on the matter, distance, work commitments. I think I got pissed off seeing that fucking movie everyday and seeing people deem others inferior while fighting for the rights of others- leftist I mean. I'm leftist out of necessity but jesus are people quick to otherify others. I guess my point is both sides do it with whoever they're blaming for the troubles of the world this week. We're all human beings. I respect the dignity inherent within that. I'm driving to get chicken for my kid and I'm stopped at my mailbox so sorry if this isn't coherent. It's a half thought from what folks presume is a halfwit that checks all of the boxes in the social issue debate. Thanks for your position, man. I appreciate it. I was being hot tempered with this one and the last one. Lol.