Project 365

I am doing the "Project 365" from Creating Keepsakes. I am taking pictures weekly, rather than daily, though to journal my year. Here are some pictures I took today at Mickie Grove Zoo and Park where my friend, Chauntae, and I took our kids:

The younger kids looking at animals

Buds on a tree

This one is the reflection of a tree in the pond:

Layouts, pictures ROUGH DRAFT

...and in the end

At 18,

coming of age in a group home,

is just not the same.

Blow-ups, blow-outs are met with restraints, police, and visits to mental hospitals.

Being held down

as the staff jams a calming injection into the arm.

Injections that make you slur words, shake, and sleep.

Even less freedom than before.

Choices are even more forced.

Free-will is non-existant.

No future.

No fun.