There is a vast, vast difference living in the well-off countryside, the bucolic countryside, of beautiful sunsets and fond remembrances
and living in the poor countryside, stuck in a country where white bread wrappers blow in the wind and get snagged by low branches; And where used pampers litter the yards and old appliances are thrown down the hill behind the houses; And where no one has their own teeth after age 37; And where the only books for sale are Harlequin novels; And where women wear facial bruises on Monday's; And where you need three cars, so that one might start; And where seeing a doctor means bringing some trinket he might want in exchange for services rendered; And where the "man of the house" spends all his money on chroming his truck, while his wife and kids live in a trailer; And where the downtown has been gutted, borded-up and "Wal-Marted." And where Monday mornings in March see the most suicides. That countryside is the daily reality of the country's poor. That countryside is rarely referenced or discussed. As a sawmill and woods worker in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico and Washington State, I knew that countryside well. Being a part of that countryside is disability enough. That countryside is a bad place to be if you are even more disabled. Dalton From: <a...@artfarm.com> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:41:37 -0400 To: <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Subject: [TMIC] Blown Away Resent-From: <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Resent-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:45:43 -0700 i'm dumbstruck at the question "why do I stay" coming from this group. I am paralyzed -- i would think folks here at least might understand what having a disability thrust on them late in life would mean. Or maybe i just didn't know that there were services that buy one's home, pack one up, and relocates them to more congenial and supportive communities. I never found such, but it could just be the limits of my imagination. Or maybe i'm the only person here without the money to just buy myself the solutions i need. I am obviously wrong on many counts.
