The Eye of The Storm

Good Morning World:  How are you??? Here is a partial "Word List"   for May, 2011:
Fun, park, bird song, beauty, sweet people, music, out of the pothole loop------
Blocks, detours springboards,
"Twisted, crumpled, chunks of metal."  Msn.com May 23, 2011-----------------

     On Nightly News last night a boomer age couple were interviewed. They had been spared from the violent tornado which hit Joplin, Missouri yesterday. "The Lord's Prayer saw us through," the wife said
     "I bet I must have repeated it 100 times. That's all that got us through."...
     "They just came by and told us that the house isn't structurally sound and we're gonna have to leave."

     I know how devastation feels.  Not from a natural disaster ( and  man cannot control the Mother Earth ). But I know heartbreak, loss, betrayal, and grief.  I have known the long, dark night of the soul.  I have been without a home. I can empathathize.  I have started over- many, many times.  Felt despondent at times. And yet......
      We humans have an indefinable will to go on, to keep fighting, to not give up, to try and try and try yet again--- to not to lose hope, to not lose faith.
     "Dazed,stunned, confused."  Words of a reporter describing people's reactions.  Word lists of now.  Harsh and never- ending now, all our circumstances can seem.

 The eye of the storm  over all.  Around the globe, not just Joplin, Pakistan, Iran, Palestine, not just Mexico, Columbia, or Iceland.  We're all in it---whirling, twirling, falling, running, getting up once more.  I have in my sub bag I carry with me when I teach,  a little Japanese saying,  something like- fall 7 times, get up eight.  
     Here is to the world my hope- for winging it thru the eye of the storm, on this krazy, krazy, wild Mother Earth of ours, that we all should see peace and a glimmer, a shimmer of beauty to sustain us to the end.

    And don't forget-- if you are able, to keep a spare blanket and  a little pillow for your loved ones, dental floss, and perhaps, some  good books near by, Always..............................................wayfaringsub...........................