This Is Now That Was Then

There is a Native American proverb, "A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground." In North America the trend of taking children from mothers and thus, imprisoning a mother's heart, has run rampant for many years. "This Is Now That Was Then" metaphorically describes scavenging-for-sustenance children and their right to be with their mother-no matter how imprisoned-by-life-events she may be in her quest to survive.