We're having another deluge, and when I returned from walking our dog, we were both soaked. Another day for reading or a movie. Fear arises in me during these storms, as we have huge trees that could fall on our house, both on our property and on either side of us. Last week two enormous trees fell: one crushed three cars, the other blocked the whole street for a day. I stopped by our younger son's place this morning and his fiance asked me if we had felt the earthquake Saturday morning. I was visiting our older son, so had not. But this kind of weather reminds us Nature is powerful and we are not in control. It makes us jumpy. When I was on the phone yesterday with a friend in another state, she described how nervous she was feeling about earthquakes. Part of this is natural, and part may be the result of the election and the turmoil right now in Washington, D.C. The zeitgeist is anxious.
We're never in control, but storms like this don't allow us to ignore this fact. We face it or wonder why we're snapping at our children. I'm attempting to sit with this fear, and while I probably won't befriend it, I can cut myself some slack. After all, I am an ordinary human being, so I guess I'll just join the crowd.
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