Jackie is just 24 yrs old, she has two boys, Mason, who's getting a KISS planted on his forehead, is almost 4, his younger brother Tyler is 2 1/2.
The three of them live in an RV parked in the Interbay Safe Parking Site, they are one of (25) vehicles waiting to see what will happen this Friday the 10th when they all need to leave.
The City of Seattle has already given a week extension to the original date of June 3rd, given because the promised (15) sites in SODO were not ready; but even if they were, or are, the vehicle residents have clearly stated that they will not move to SODO, they have articulated that the site is NOTsafe and is to far away from many of the needed medical services.
I just want to cryOUTloud!
HONESTLY, what are we making more important than finding room for all of us to live?
I can tell you that in those RV's parked along our streets and in Safe Parking Sites there are people living with chronic pain and no medication, there are people living with leaking roofs and mold issues, there are people afraid to fall asleep for fear of theft and violence, there are people living with gas tanks empty, there are stomachs hungry, emotions suffering from trauma and there are moms giving sons kisses on their foreheads.
And yes, there are those that are using drugs, drugs to help get where they need to go, a place of less pain, a place of fitting in, just a place. I know it is complicated, I know it would be easy to punch holes in the feelings just shared, but HONESTLY, what are we making more important than finding room for all of us to live?
Thank you Jackie for sharing the beauty of you and your sons with me; a bigBIG community LOVE to you my new friend.
Interbay neighborhood | Rex
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