stereotypes.....

ok, so i was visited professionally today by a series of stereotypical folk....all unfortunately tied into the general and unfortunate 'kentucky' stereotype.............first there was the 16 year-old determined to drop out of high school now that she is pregnant...and the woman who was taken aback when i assumed that the 3 and 4 year olds with her were, in fact, her own children....'how can they be mine...i am 35..no...these are my grandbabies'......and then there was the visibly pregnant woman who was smoking outside the front door in the chilling temperature.....accompanied by her 18 month-old who was till in her zip-up pajamas and unwashed/unfed......(it was past lunchtime)....the child threw a classic fit about wanting something mom wasn't prepared to give her.....lunch....by throwing herself on the floor of my office and proceeding to kick, scream and beat her fists......omg.....and then there was the newly diabetic client who weighs twice what i weigh.......sadly....whose husband recently left her and she is living in a trailer with friends, sleeping on their sofa.....and she has every health problem known to mankind....and she looks 65 rather than 41 because she also smokes.......gentle readers.......one does what one can for these folks.......but at the end of the day one simply has to walk away and put it all of of mind.......especially under this administration..these are the kind of folks who don't know any better....and won't be learning better any time soon......and all the talk about taking away benefits to the undeserving just leaves them worse off than they are now.......in a pitiable state of affairs.............and......just who are the deserving poor.........in my bible it reminds me that none of use deserve grace.........