The Fragile

This post is going to have to be a "Quickie". The reason for this can be found at the end of this entry.

Beverly had a great post yesterday which resulted in the creation of a SS. She eloquently drove home a point stating, that without an underlying philosophy of hope, all SS's were doomed to failure. In short, without hope, no idea, no matter how brilliant has a ghost of a chance at success. Allow a short story from an experience that some of us had in '07.

Almost all of the residents of Enclave went through the disaster of 2007. There were riots everywhere. Gangs formed from a natural need to belong to something and of course, survival. Violence, starvation and fear were common. There was needless killing in Ann Arbor; a particularly senseless death near Cleveland stays with me to this day. In the midst of all this mayhem some voices began to be heard. One such voice pleaded with us, that no matter where we were, that we were to identify the "Fragile" in our community. "The Fragile" became a buzzword. It became accepted practice for everyone at Enclave to identify those in the community that had, for one reason or another become marginalized. The list is long, the old, the very young, the sick, the pariahs of our society such as the GLBT community, all those who have been shoved to a corner and ignored by others competing for survival. We would go out of our way to seek out and let these people know that they were not alone. Some we helped by giving shelter, others we helped by getting them the help they needed, others we just didn't have the means, but we tried anyway.

The souls we encountered received aid, yes; but more importantly, they realized that they were not alone and there might be some hope after all. This is what Beverly’s Superstruct proposes. I think it’s a good idea.


I just received news that there are some homeless headed this way. The estimate was about 80 people. Needless to say that we are in no way, shape or form, ready to help that many people.

Megiddo