You'd Break Your Neck to Keep Your Chin Up.

Breakin' out the old blog again....

Today was probably one of the best days I've had in a few weeks. Okay...I say that often...but it was amazing.
I have an assignment for my Substance Abuse Intervention class to interview a social worker that works specifically in the field of Substance Abuse. Today I went and interviewed a woman that works at Carol Jones Recovery Center here in town.
WOW.
This woman was...so strong. She's been through so freaking much; I am amazed at her strength and her ability accept the past and learn from it. I'm so dang excited to write this paper. I could see it forming in my mind while she was talking...ohh man...its going to be good. Passion. She has passion. I LOVE IT!
And Rare Breed today...ohh gosh. Rare Breed Youth Outreach Center has absolutely stolen my heart. Those kids (a lot of whom are older than me...) are BEAUTIFUL. Amazing. Wow. I can't describe. Thank God for that place...
Basically, I can't even wait to get out into the world and be helping people instead of sitting in a classroom all day. I can't wait!

A quote from my interview, and then I'm off. I'll hopefully be updating this more these days...I need a place to vent sometimes.

This quote is talking about the women that come into Carol Jones Recovery Center, but...I think it is so much a description of all of us sometimes. We all need someone. We need eachother. We are fighting and scratching and clawing our way into acceptance...into an acceptance that is numbing and cold and completely not what we expected it to be. But all along, we are hoping for someone to care about us...to care about who we are and what we need and what we feel...

"They are broken, wounded, hopeless, helpless...They come in here hoping to God that someone is there who is going to give a shit."