Mrs. Rice Looks Healthy

Such a wonder to look so healthy after so many ordeals.
Maybe it's true...getting up is what matters.
We know how easy it is to kill or cripple an unconscious person when moving him, or her.
Still, as a TV raised public, we were more alarmed by witnessing the blow itself as it was delivered
to the then Ms. Palmer.
Since then, we've somehow focused on his power.
The power of his fist...
The power in his arm...
The power of his reputation...
The power in his NFL connections...
The power in his fan base...
The power in his partner's devotion...
The power of his celebrity...
The power of his wrongdoing...
The power of escape from a jail sentence...
But Janay Palmer, thus far, is cloisterer of  the power of a true survivor.
And she is the one I hope continues in good health.
Her spoken words say 'we' 'us' 'family' 'our'. I find it so very shrunken from the close call her body
may have endured.
Her speech could be replete with 'I'. His has been,
Yet women made to embrace cowering, don't always choose to personally identify with the position
they've been encouraged to greet publicly. Actually, why should they embrace such a thing?
I know Mrs. Rice's brain could have bounced off her skull.
I know she could have sustained a hairline fracture in her skull bone.
I know key vertebrae at the base of her brain could have suffered dangerous whiplash.
I sense how lucky she is if she is truly well, no thanks to Ray Rice.
Mrs. Rice's part in this violence continues to this day, though probably unwittingly.
Her good wishes for Ray Rice should be minimized by professional prosecutors.
Domestic violence , is after all, violence.
Violence can be unyieldingly dangerous, ergo necessarily prosecuted by the public criminal justice
systems in proper jurisdictions of a civilized society.
Mrs. Rice may have the requisite proper medical care with C.A.T. scans, etc.-
but she does have a right to that privacy at the least.
Whatever happens or does not happen, the whole affair is mostly sad for her at this time because she
is a grown-up, and may therefore have to make decisions about her own future with or without
Mr. Ray Rice.
In the end, let's hope if there has to be a reckoning in his career, it will be recognized that his actions
causing great violence to another person have to shoulder the preponderance of blame, and the totality of what must be paid society for the crime.
Nearly all violence has a cause; but one knows it can't be excused on that basis.
In our future, we can only hope the person most warmly close, most trusting, won't continue to be the
one who suffers the most extreme betrayal and threat at the hands of a beloved.