PK

being a PK carries special privileges. everyone knows you and people are always watching you. you have to learn what it means to be in the public eye. people will remember you even after they have faded from your memories. Daddy has been here in the area for half his life. i have seen a parade of people come and go through the hospital room. lots of visitors and well wishers. we give each other a knowing glance. the faces look distantly familiar and now that some of their children are adults i can no longer easily place them in time and space. we knowingly nod an acknowledgment of relationship and connection through the pastor - Rev, as he is affectionately called. who else will become a fading memory? the longer i am out of contact with the sister that i knew, the less real she will become. will they come to my brother's wedding? will they bring my mother? or will they personalize all this and deny her the chance to meet her new DIL? the attorney says that Ms POA is angry because of we chose to appeal the BS order that came from that backasswards GA courtroom. what did she think would happen? is she simply waiting for us to roll over and expose our vulnerable undersides? she drew first blood. now we have graciously turned the other cheek as well. it is clobbering time now. but not with anger. reason and peaceful resistance. the truth will prevail. given time and our substantial PK training. i know how to keep a low but watchful profile. does she?