The Power of Testimony

MARK BOUMAN || 41
was always working at home or trying to work in town. She talked about
making ends meet and scraping by. Dad seemed like he was always playing
with guns and old vehicles at home, or working in town and then
staying in town to play by himself. Almost none of the Bouman family’s
meager resources of time and money trickled down to us kids.
We lived hour by hour, not thinking about what might come next,
doing as we liked and liking a decent amount of what we did. Somehow
whole seasons passed that way, and I had little inkling that folks lived
other ways, or that my own way of life was soon to change.