Monday, April 10, 2006

The Sky Fell


Looks just a little bit scary uh Pee-Wee? It’s not nearly has bad as some have had it but I got to tell you this little Critter is not used to seeing the sky come in so low and so fast. When the wind from this baby swept in the pine cones from the trees across the street landed, and I mean landed, in my yard without touching the ground. My yard is pretty well taken cared of and it took about three seconds to fill it with pine cones and leafs. Earthquakes. The earth squirming and jolting and jumping and humping right under my little feet. That’s a little more of the kind of natural phenomenon that I’m used to. Grew up on a fault line in California. Lived on a fault line in Alaska. Nearly all my life has been spent on the Ring of Fire. Some I know never quite got used to the idea of the earth opening up a swallowing anything and everything whole in one violent gulp. ‘Course now I live in hurricane country. Granted there has not been one here for a long, long time but I have a front row seat and it’s a little nerve racking to see the satellite photos showing those swirling maelstrom and my home in the same image. The funky shot of my hair exploding off my head was taken when the bitch Katrina was on the East coast of Florida and hundreds of miles away. The power is unfathomable.


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