a prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages a prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages quote

I realized though that not everyone has a family like I do. I cannot imagine a life without “the Compound.” When I was away at college and most people were excited to be far from home I secretly missed my life and wondered why anyone would want to leave home. We live through each other while sharing joys, happiness, pains, and hardships. Basically it’s as if we all have two other sets of parents and siblings. There is almost nothing that we don’t share. We fight, love, share, hate, and forgive just as siblings do. Each family has two children, one boy and one girl, ranging from 16-23 years old.

Each family is free to walk into another’s any time they please and to ask for anything.

We have almost no boundaries with each other and our homes. We have gone to the same church our whole lives also which plays a huge role in why we’re so close. They are mine and my family’s lifelong friends with whom we share everything. These neighbors are not just regular neighbors either. One of the most important yet most difficult aspects of my life to explain is “the Compound.” The Compound (aka Blue Island Compound, aka BIC) consists of my 2 sets of neighbors. To a Lost Soul, I wonder if you were truly ever there. What of this compound of love, seized by the heartbreak that is still left hanging in the air. To a world you no longer belong in, the children you bore still remain. Of the home which you helped build slowly, then suddenly let collapse. I have witnessed the slow unraveling of the family you left behind. 'Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages a prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages quote