I captured a hawk with my hands and took it to a vet, once. They weren’t impressed and wouldn’t take it. So I took it to the EPA.. They were also not impressed.. but the hawk recovered.

Saved one! Gotta stay positive.

No regrets.

*{21 hours later}*

I got caught in an ice storm down some Pennsylvania back roads.

To days lesson. Future is my story to write.

*{13 hours later}*

I found Jesus!

Now… About accompanying this wild winter storm through the great state of New Jersey.

*{10 hours later}*

So.. I’m off to Bethlehem!

Not too many things to threaten me with these days. I was born at the bottom. My kids were the only leverage the world could hold against me.

I’m now a grown free woman that has seen and experienced too much to stay quiet..

I’ll eventually find my amplified voice.
When I do, I’m snitchin.

I literally met unrealistic goals to satisfy the courts and proper society..

I was never enough. It’s been 20 years, they may have created a beast that can river dances on a tight rope over Niagara Falls.
I comply.

I didn’t want to look back. This is all so dark and weird.

Oh.. Damn.
They wanted me to be on drugs, I passed all the randoms.

I wasn’t old enough to get married in the state of Alabama but I made that happen.

I dropped out in the 8th grade. Just to show up to college 1 year before my graduating class.

I was set up to fail but Idk how to give up.

My city lived off the water since the 1600s. Much of the same life style. We stayed hidden and forgotten until water front money came sniffing before the storm. They needed to get rid of those who opposed. The storm was an excuse that’d help developers demolish a historic way of life.

For 100s of years every year. We know the drill.
What we didn’t understand is ‘the ways of the white man’

My city has been here much longer than America. We kept our way of life for 100s of years. Until they finally figured out how to destroy us. People talk about their state living independently

It was a week after the hurricane passed and people started making their way into our city is when the real storm hit.

The destruction and devastation placed on my community didn’t come from a storm.. We are generations of people raised along side hurricanes. We know how to weather.

Jet skiing in the surge of a historic hurricane is my favorite flex and favorite memory of the storm.

It’s the first story I tell people when they learn about my experience. To signal a much different experience than NOLA.

“Don’t feel sorry for me I was on a jet ski”

There was more fun being had during and immediately after the storm. That hurricane was wild! I’d do it again.

My government caused more destruction and devastation than a historic hurricane that wiped out more than half of my city.

I’d trust a cat5 over my government any day.

His name is all over these forms he signed stripping me of any opportunity to ever be a mother.

What punishment fits the crime of unjustly taking a mother’s baby?

Every mother I’ve asked seems to have the same idea of what they would do. The whole goal was to make me more motherly. Right? RIGHT?

It’s hard af to pay child support and daycare at 15. On top of surviving my government and a historic storm.

I’m going to run into that judge or his family one day. Mobile is quite small and women tend to remember such atrocities

I want an apology from him. It’s the very least I deserve.

I was an orphan who was pressured into marriage then sent to jail right after I was finally legally allowed to divorce him.
I went to jail while I was pregnant over a $10 seatbelt ticket.. because I got a divorce from a marriage some old white guy made me commit too..

Something feels off..

Unless you’re the state of Alabama or the city of Mobile, I don’t have room to hold animosity for anyone else.

There’s people I wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire, but I’d never be dismissive or rude to them.
They have their own story and struggles.

I’d just smile and confidently walk away.