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August 14 - October 14, 2020
children could be forced to work off the debt of their parents if the parents died, became disabled, or escaped.
Jorge Francisco Solis
Would he have been given medical treatment if he were in jail?
a simple thing. But then, there’s nothing more replaceable than unskilled labor.
Haha
Tori Solis has found us two more companions today:
Grayson Mora
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it was unusual that he had taken charge of his child.
Haha ouch
“So we become the crew of a modern underground railroad,”
“In the early 1990s while I was in college, I heard about cases of growers doing some of this—holding people against their wills and forcing them to work without pay.
Latins in California, blacks and Latins in the south. … Now and then, someone would go to jail for it.”
Federal laws against peonage (debt servitude), involuntary servitude, and forced labor: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), 18 U.S.C ch. 77:
https://www.justice.gov/crt/involuntary-servitude-forced-labor-and-sex-trafficking-statutes-enforced
“Things are breaking down more and more.”
Respect God: Pray working. Pray learning, planning, doing. Pray creating, teaching, reaching. Pray working. Pray to focus your thoughts, still your fears, strengthen your purpose. Respect God. Shape God. Pray working.
God is Change, and in the end, God does prevail. But we have something to say about the whens and the whys of that end.
Question
We are a harvest of survivors. But then, that’s what we’ve always been.
I grabbed Harry and Zahra by the arms to get their attention. Then I gestured them back to guard our packs and Natividad and Allie who had stayed with the babies.
We found Emery fighting with a big bald man who had grabbed Tori.
I saw Bankole grab Tori and all but throw her to Jill. Jill caught her, turned, and ran back toward camp with her.
Our rifle thundered behind me before I could spot anything. Harry, on the job.
“Take my gun, then, and give it to Natividad—in case they decide to come back.”
Jill Gilchrist is dead.
A bullet had plowed a furrow straight through the flesh of my left side,
“Cowboy wound,”
Haha
The trees were to have her, but the dogs and the cannibals were not.
Why not? Useful to those others, v. Respect for the dead? Question ethical conundrum
“They’re sharers, aren’t they?” “Yes, all of them—both adults and both kids.
Haha
Simile
Haha
“It hurts like hell,” I warned. He shrugged. “Most things do.”
Haha
We fight together against enemies. If one of us is in need, the rest help out. And we don’t steal from one another, ever.”
Earthseed’s ethical imperative
In spite of your loss and pain, you aren’t alone. You still have people who care about you and want you to be all right. You still have family.
Earthseed’s ethical imperative
I worried because I didn’t understand the ways of our attackers.
Let him die three or four times and see how he feels.
Haha
“My god,” Bankole said. “This country has slipped back two hundred years.”
Haha - to antebellum South.
“My mother always said they would get better again. Good times would come back. She said they always did. My father would shake his head and not say anything.”
That’s our question for today.
There is a terrific / horrific rendition of a forest fire’s malevolent and vicious behavior in The River by Peter Heller.
“The fire could jump the road any time.”
Yes that is what they do.
“If that fire gets going good, it will move faster than we can run!
That’s true too.
The road isn’t safe from the fire either.
If I moaned and groaned, I’d have all four of them moaning and groaning. The kids might even bleed along with me.
So the sharing absorbs the mental 8mages of the other, not the actual extent of the injuries. Question
Behind us and to the north, the fire began to roar.
The man wasn’t likeable, but in his love for his daughter, he was admirable.
It teased like a living, malevolent thing, intent on causing pain and terror.
Haha
“I’m not going to be able to sleep until you do,” he said. “It’s that simple. So let’s both put our pain to good use.”
Haha
There must be something worthwhile in Mora.
she was free to help with the ordinary, unspeakable things that we did now to live.
