The first anniversary of my father's death will arrive in 2 days. It has been a hard year, absolutely filled to the brim with active grieving. Giving up the most loveable, loving controlling-alcoholic-narcissistic father on the planet has been complicated for his immediate family, and expecially for his extremely middle-aged baby daughter.
But even the closing of melancholic doors opens windows to fresh air: in this case empathy with a family who has difficulties worse than any ours ever faced. This family has come into opposition with the police state at constant but so often dead silent work in this the land of the free. Their misfortune came about by the accident of a child's genetic miscoding that resulted in autism, that resulted in eccentric behavior, that met with a reaction of UNACCEPTABLE to a police officer on duty. And now a man-child with a misunderstood, terrible neurological disorder languishes in jail.
Eighteen year-old Neli Latson's story was printed as a headline story in today's Washington Post online news, due to the monumental work his mother, Lisa Alexandra has done to get his story out via the social media. You can find it at http://avoiceforneli.com.
I have visited Neli's site, signed her petition, made a contribution, and contacted Lisa. I hope someone will read and do the same.
