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"Tell them not to treat foster kids like this.
Tell them not to take kids from their mothers who love them.
Tell them not to treat kids bad just because they have disabilities.
It hurts their feelings."
This is a space to remember my son Sekai. (10/8/93-6/10/09)
To write it out as I do life without him.
To write it out as I do life without him.
To continue his purpose as well as my own.
To help others learn from him and his experiences.
To collect stories of other children bruised and broken in the foster care system, heartbroken by disability or special healthcare needs, needing mental health services that may be unavailable or inappropriate, or simply desperate for love and respect and even family and friends.
To stir hearts to action.
To laugh, cry, add, take, grow, and make it better.
Sekai, age 2
Sekai,age 15
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July
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- "You hurt my feelings"
- Lyrically speaking
- Some good days, some bad days, some really sad days
- Youth with Disabilities in the Foster Care System:...
- And the winner is not...
- "D.C. Adoptions Drop Sharply, Causing Dismay: City...
- Existential, phenomenological, or maybe just sad
- And the winner is...
- At the corner of Matthew and Phillip
- Salvation
- Missed appointment
- Chicken nuggets, with a side of sarcasm
- A meditation on birthdays, with respect to Sekai
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When I read stuff like this, it really upsets me. This country does not spend enough time, energy, and money on the important things. This is not acceptable. Children are so precious, but the seriousness of this situation is barely addressed. Working with the Medicaid system in Georgia helped me to see it from the inside and it touched my heart then and hasn't left since. =(
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