Kamo Youngblood

When Seeking Adventure

Loraine Bonny’s physical pain had finally pulled at the threads of her emotional procrastination, as she sat outside of the chiropractor’s office with her head in her hands. The weight of her grandfather Edwin’s recent death, until today, was the most enveloping feeling she could ever remember experiencing. Loraine made her way through the foreign Sierra Vista chiropractor’s office still trying to wrap her head around the encounter she had just experienced at the Food Co-Op, which she was certain had changed her life for forever. She wondered how much longer she would have gone on living complacently if the office in her home town hadn’t closed permanently due to Covid-19 restrictions. For the first time in a week, she allowed herself to relax as the heating pads weighed heavily on her back, sending floods of pain and anguish throughout her body and psyche. She was scared of her aging body, she was upset with her granddad for dying, but mostly, she was mad at him for allowing her to live so plentiful, in ignorant bliss, while so many were starved, impoverished and without basic needs.