Feeling Better

I have been sick the last week. Body aches and pains...terrible headaches and falling asleep all the time. It should have been a good week for me, but I had these two have to get to court hearings, boys basketball and just other stuff. But today after a long weekend of lounging, napping, sleeping, drinking tea and hot chocolate I feel better. Just in time to go back to work. Back to the place where children are at risk. Back to the place where we choose how much abuse and neglect we can allow. Where do the rights of the parents end and the rights of the children take precedence? Even thinking about my mother, I ask when will the courts do what is right rather than expedient? Who is looking after the rights of the weak? It certainly is not my mother's social worker! It is not that lame judge who ran roughshod over the family gathered in his presence! It is not the immensely inappropriate POA. It is not the GAL we requested but were not able to obtain. It is not the Dept of Human Resources in GA! Waiting for justice in our indifferent court system means waiting in vain.

A Rose by Any Other Name

A Rose by Any Other Name, originally uploaded by lucienphoto.

Sorrowful!

Beautiful Child

Beautiful Child, originally uploaded by lucienphoto.

This is film photography. I chose the film and processed the negatives myself. Unfortunately, I did not do this film justice. This was wonderful light in the studio and this was the nearly perfect pose of this darling child looking up at her mother. But still it is an image worthy of posting. No, it doesn't have that shiny digital face. It has lots of grain and you can see the dust on the negative scan...I probably should have cleaned it up in PSE5, but I wanted to see what it would look like on the web.

I also have some negatives of my mother that I must have taken 2007 Mothers' Day. They will likely be grainy as well.