Two girls and the adults who believed them

 

View from Zoom
of the in person half
of the memorial

This post is dedicated to two young girls and the adults who believed them. The girls are probably grown by now and RantWoman prays that they are surrounded by love and care as they as adults walk through everything that must have been part of their childhoods. Yes, the above is a weird visual; RantWoman hopes it reflects others praying as well.

 RantWoman greatly appreciates the message in the memorial for the safest sex offender on the planet who clearly was NOT safe but was a sex offender at the time he was babysitting his female friend's children. He only became the safest sex offender on the planet later after much back and forth and community awareness. RantWoman also has a sense of walking in some zone of well it helps one starfish even if a person walking along a beach cannot through all the stranded starfish back into the sea. In this case, the starfish is one offender who will get PLENTY more air time elsewhere and this blog is about two girls and the adults who believed them not about everything going on in and around the sea.

This post is dedicated to lots of other people struggling about gnarly childhoods and disability and mental illness and neglect. 

RantWoman is glad the girls came up at all.

RantWoman is touched they came up after this somewhat snarky  part of RantWoman's ministry:

"The date of the memorial was Orthodox Easter. If you didn't get enough resurrection last week come back for more this week.

"One time RantWoman and the safest sex offender... were in a spiritual sharing group together. We were kind of flailing about format and reading options. RantWoman suggested reading a poem by the Guatemalan liberation theology poet Julia Esquivel called in English 'They have threatened us with resurrection' 

This poem can be found elsewhere on this blog but here is the search result that first popped today.

They have threatened us with Resurrection

The safest sex offender...is the one who brought out of the poem concern not to repeat cycles of violence."

RantWoman has more to say but saying it here does not do justice to need for the girls to have their own space.