What one person does, several people usually consider.

I am one of them.
I am also Rachel.
I am Risika

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know; it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.

I work during the days and have night classes on Wednesday and Thursday and live with my partner, who is in school during the days and works Wednesday through Saturday nights. Monday and Tuesday are therefore our nights, and we both get our work out of the way so we can actually spend time together.

My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.