Guest
Essay:
Remembering
Geraldine Lucas
by Terri Harper
State
Correctional
Institute at Muncy PA, June 2015: I went from a citizen and
human
being to
prison in 1991. So . . . I asked myself: “At what stage of my
existence am I no
longer a liability? How can I be of value, at least as much value as
the inmate
next to me?”
Today
I think of those
questions again, because I have had
the absolute blessing to have spent the last two years engrossed in
caring for
Gealdine Theresa Lucas: my little “Ornery Bird” as
I so
lovingly called her.
Right
now she is in the care
of strangers, soon to be in the
care of Almighty God. No words can describe the void I feel from the
top of my
head to the soles of my feet. I’m restless, heartbroken,
angry—and full of questions
that
begin with the word “why.”
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