It is impossible to avoid retriggering when a child has been assaulted in their own home, in the area we left, and then I visit them as they are hastily light-packing and leaving their belongings behind them to move to another state and leave their belongings and the bad things behind them.
It is difficult being out in the alternating cold, sunshine, and rain in the environment that makes my face puffy and worn and my muscles ache while windswept hair rearranges visage into form of a mountain witch blending into the scenery, as I meet and greet people gaily in salt-of-the-eath, down-home interacting – dissolving my city slick identity while I bid fond farewells of goodbye.
Being back on the property in the wrong shoes, traversing over slickery-slanted mud waddles, worrying if gravity will slam me down again for the slightest minimalist yet effortful attempts to just make sure my parents’ property is ok and that I have my few remnants properly removed, finally.
The molding, thriving mildew on and in everything including in and outside of my car to various degrees; the tossing of empty tires to rid them of collected in-groove rain water and tree detritus – only to have upon ground-tossed impact that water spraying at force directly back into my eyes and face…what are the odds of that carefully callibrated angle hitting so perfectly?
Apparently, Ihave hidden talents I do not even imagine…
Miraculous maneuverings of collaborative creativity result in my car at last tied securely to a trailer for towing back to an implied, promised resurrection.
And this was only Tuesday!