“Do you have forty seven cents? I’m a little short.” a woman said to John as he waited in a Walmart line. In her cart she had a large bottle of root beer and a big pumpkin.

“I’m out of change. Have you thought about a smaller pumpkin?” John said.

“I can’t do that! My kids need this.”

“Why did you decide I needed to buy you the biggest pumpkin?”

“IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE MY KIDS” she said and huffed off, adding a giant bag of M and M’s to her cart, to find a better place to check out!

She probably went home wondering what went wrong, after all she said all the CORRECT WORDS; ‘we need to have’, ‘do you have’ and ‘takes a village’.

I find her idea of ‘village’ chilling. I think of the economic/ social system in which the majority of marriages and families were broken on purpose, all were expected to obey authority without question or complaint, and housing, food and health care were provided for ‘free’. This is extremely offensive to me. In our country any people, many years ago, lost their lives years ago because of this system.

In the picture below called, Understanding Plastic Vanities, you’re inside your own face looking out through your open mouth and nose holes at a strange world. Perhaps a world where people plead, “Please let me be a slave!”  nancymauerman.com

Understanding Plastic Vanities – Framed