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Photo Friday, No. 777

Current Photo Friday theme: Force of Nature

I’ve used this photo on here before, taken in August after the powerful tornado that swept through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in April 2011. Here’s the text I included with the photo back then:

A woman with her five-month-old was in this house owned by her parents. She took the baby to the basement during the tornado. When they emerged–safe–later, she found all that was left of her home: a baby crib, a kitchen wall with a refrigerator, and her parents’ piano.

I wish people believed climate change is real and needs to be addressed quickly. I wish they’d vote out of office those who are controlled by lobbyists who care only about profit and nothing about the planet. These kinds of events will only get worse. We are destroying the only home we have with greed, indifference, and denial.

Photo Friday, No. 773

Current Photo Friday theme: Isolation


I was laid off from my job in the spring of 2020 because of the Covid pandemic, and I began to isolate at home. I fought a prior catastrophic event with the new one by using the time to begin replacing, with CDs, some of the 294 albums Hurricane Harvey destroyed or damaged in 2017. I need my music.

I also need to create. I’ve completed four novels that are part of a family saga I’m writing covering the late 1940s to who knows when. I seem to be forever stuck in 1974 at the moment. Despite being a tumultuous time, the fiction of it is easier on my nervous system than the reality of now.

Still, I am present: grateful for the moment and hopeful for the future.

Photo Friday, No. 771

Current
Photo Friday theme: Animal

Maddox, March 2018

You can go through some stuff. You can have the scars. You may be wary and wiser. You can survive and even thrive if, instead of staying trapped in what was, you believe in yourself; if you value what is offered instead of what might have been or what might be; and if you can live in the here and now. These are lessons dogs teach us.