Stories of misfortune and resilience

[kyadoshi]

I'm considering a series of stories that invert tragic tales of intention to tragic tales of misfortune. The circles I tend to exist in are very harsh to judge the intentionally downtrodden - these are people that intentionally make lives worse for themselves or others - either through ignorance of Right Action, or enslavement to sensibility or hubris. For example, the term "Coal Burner" is often used to mock anglo-saxon women of questionable morals that engage in miscegenation with the sons of descended African slaves. The result is always single motherhood where the father leaves and fails to create a stable family. The analysis of statistics alone reveals this behavior behind the very high black homicide rates in the US. Their behavior is so unpopular that protestations against it are starting to get misinterpreted as racism. Mind you, no one is suggesting a return to slavery, but segregation is making a reasonable return amongst the hushed whispers of the coastal elites. I digress.

So, instead of the intentionally broken family where a father fails to stay, what of the single mothers of tragic circumstances? What of the pregnant women who discover their love has died in a foreign field of war? Or worse, what of the fathers that mysteriously die only to be found weeks or months later? I think of the end of Season 2 of Downton Abbey.

My gaze turns to a song I heard the other day. Like all songs that inspire creativity within me, it is purely instrumental and void of words.

This one song swells and crescendos into a frantic longing to the point of hopelessness and a visage begins to form.