Home sweet home ?

 Yesterday I awoke to the sound of two police vans racing past our house with sirens blaring. Not something we usually see here, unless a certain local family feud has kicked off again. That seems to have died down nowadays though. It was also a bit early for an accident to have occurred.

Anyway it turns out a rumor has it that a man tried to strangle his partner, a well known local woman. For a few weeks ive seen him just standing by the single track road doing nothing, just loitering. I thought this was not normal behavior at all. If he had been walking up and down the road I would have not batted an eye. There was just something off about him. He looked to be brooding. 

This valley is nothing more than a rural ghetto. Just below the surface lies violence, misery and malice. Its no different to anywhere else, in fact I think considering the low population spread its worse. There is a dark under current. A methodist preacher in this area once said he had a vision of a " dark cloud " hanging over the valley. A dark history certainly does regarding slavery, and a story of a massacre that was launched against freed slaves who attacked people once their freedom was finally won...

It is now the Ideas of March no doubt. People get ideas about the coming summer after a dormant winter. For some its building projects and home improvements, but for some its a breaking point, as for me last year. This contrast of good and bad is hard to reconcile. The beautiful scenery and the human negativity. Only a few can deal with the full picture that no one ever mentions. Its something that I'm coming to terms with. I want everyone here to see the truth, the full truth.