Disaster | Disaster
Mar.25.2013
...from "Ode to Santa Cruz," _New & Selected Poems_. Red Hen Press, 'a sidewalk of broken glass, a street filled with jewels. Loma Prieta, The Earthquake of the Dark Hill, place, this place, always coming back from a disaster. Natural beauty and unnatural events, jazz, blues, canoes, tattoos, I...
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Feb.19.2013
This year, after living in a spacious two-bedroom, two-bath apartment on a gorgeous lake for six years, I have uprooted my life to downsize.
Downsize. This is a word that has harassed so many people in the past decade that it is not funny. From the Tsunami in Indonesia and the more recent one in...
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Feb.15.2013
You know that nightmare cruise on the Carnival ship of horrors that was finally towed into Mobile with a boatload of malfunctions? Power down? Food scarce and awful?* Toilets clogged? Shower conditions ranging from hideous to none?
“It’s like being locked in a Porta...
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Jan.07.2012
When you are down with a low mood You can recover if you are shrewd
When someone discourages badly No doubt he behaves very rudely
In case you accept discouragement Your mind does a bad-Government
When you now face a severe loss Great anguish let it not cause
Losses in life are of course...
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Dec.26.2011
Disaster has struck Mindindao in the Republic of the Philippines, where they've been victimized by Typhoon Washi and flash flooding in the aftermath. Over 60,000 are listed as homeless, and 1500 are thought dead.
The Internet is good and bad for these sort of things. Good, because we know...
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Sep.11.2011
I was no where near New York on 9/11, even had I been the most energetic of crows. Through Google I find I was 815 kilometres or 506 miles away. Closer than most parts of the world but - really - not close.
I was (no surprise here) on the computer, doing the may things I do on the computer, which...
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May.11.2011
This week someone cut the locks to our gate and pilfered items from our land. Although the thievery could have been far worse, it still feels violating. A few days before that, my husband and I drove out to the property with our stomachs in knots, anxious to see if the deluge of rain had flooded...
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Apr.10.2011
I just got home from the hospital after major surgery when I received an email from my only son who was in Thailand with his wife and two children. He was taking part in a conference and brought his family for a vacation. The only trouble was the first day they arrived there was a terrible flood...
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Apr.09.2011
The Titanic, a sumptuous liner which sank during its maiden journey on April 15, 1912, bringing death to 1523 of the 2228 passengers and crew members aboard. Only 705 survived.
There was a programme about the Titanic last night on the TV (History channel, I think). I thought...
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Apr.08.2011
We slept through the worst of the rains. Six inches fell in six hours. The rain gauge told the story next morning, clear as day. But deep into the night and into the soil the water sank. It seeped onto the floor of our basement. It filled window wells and gathered in huge pools illuminated by...
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