To understand how this story ends, you need to be in IT -- PARTICIPATING. The Crisp-Yeager Foundation for Family in Renewal (CYFFR) has been doing just that since Christmas 1997 when Judge Blackburn ruled in Dr. Crisp-Yeager's favor and against Otero County social workers who had tried to remove two adopted children in order to put them back into foster care where the two children had spent the first ten years of their lives.
A year later, IT had become clear that the County's purpose was to garnish Dr. Crisp-Yeager's income with court ordered judgements. CCY, as she was known to clients and colleagues alike at CBR, made a difficult decision. She chose to do what she had taught her children to do. She sat down in a "safe place" (i.e. private and personal sanctuary) and began to write out the tumoil that was in her heart.
Today, watching "The Closer" and "Charlie Rose" on television in the ARKansas Valley, she continues to write for the world to read what she knows to be "the truth, the whole truth, and nothng but ...."
