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FREEDOM

Ability to exercise free agency, thought or movement - choice of participation, mentally or physically. The results of all the above may become manifest as physical or metaphysical, in myriad forms and actions. Just an escalator rises above a floor, freedom may arrive in stages, each stage arrives with its own test of willingness to understand and appreciation value. Freedom was never a commodity, wholesale to a particular thought pattern or mystique, freedom must be earned nutured and polished, or the event is a fleeting preview to be invoked at a later time or place with the correct price of admission.

Freedom is both an idea and a physical entity, a sail boat,who upon concept, may arise as an immedite flight of fancy, emerge half formed or shapeless and bounding in and out of the light of inspiration. Freedom is the carriage of choice leading the charge of individual value and measure of worth.

Freedom rarely knows the masses, for her lessons are often hard and require strict attention and her rudder often battles the waves and tides, the wind seldom rides at her back. But, the prize is slipping a hard wind, lying in protected coves and reminiscing the journey.

Reflections upon a mentally challenged child of 35, more often happy than sad, rarely at odds with the world, yet, requires careful attention and management of daily needs - some would actually say he is free, were he compared to the black mother watching helplessly as charging rebels attack her child and her body, her husband absent to fight a war for freedom.

Freedom is never, ever, free. The value of freedom is priceless. Therein lies the keys to heaven, or hell. drhall / bearcreekresearch