I’m posting in one of my favorite categories today, Graphically Said, and with it, and a very brief excerpt from dad’s book, “Bluebell”, showing just how difficult caring for another can be.
Willis Jefferson, a young black man featured in “Bluebell” and several – recent – posts – on – this blog, had been taught to love his fellow human. At a time when he least expects it, he hears a woman being beaten, and as he’s in the white section of a southern town, knows the race of the victim. Black men didn’t rush to help Caucasian women in this part of the country during the late 1930’s yet these words from his ‘second’ mom, Rowena Kramer, beat like a hammer in his mind.
Like a First Responder, willing to put their life on the line for another but having to consciously make that commitment each and every time they respond…
“Willis had no idea of how long he stood rooted in indecision, nor was he ever certain as to who or what ended his hesitation. With a dread fear of what lay ahead, Willis hurdled the fence, and fixed his gaze on the door of the rear, screened-in porch.”
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