Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

. . . go back and read the posts I did all through and following Hurricane Katrina.  You can find them in my archives to the right by reading the posts in August 2005 (Aug. 28 through the end of the month - the 31st) and September 2005 (from the beginning through at least the [...]

Thunderstorms have been crackling and booming in the past several afternoons.  Very loudly and ferociously.   Tom says that when storms move from east to west, against the flow in the U. S., which is normally west to east, at least generally, the thunder and lightening are much worse. I don't know about that, but it seems [...]

Do y'all realize that we have been living in limbo now for a year and a half!?!Seventeen and 1/2 months, to be exact.  I would - could - tell you the days, hours and minutes, but I won't stop to add them all up.  I know them by heart in my own heart, for sure.It [...]

The huge sign plywood sign was the most prominent feature of the place.  It was painted white with the words "LOST and FOUND LOUNGE" hand lettered with broad strokes of black paint and set out by the four lane roadway outside Waveland, Mississippi, one of the most poor and devastated areas hit by Katrina.It was [...]

You must go to this link at Digital Journalist to read about and to see "The Ordeal of Ted Jackson" from it's December 2005 issue online.  It is overwhelming in scope just as Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans levee breaks afterward were.  Ted offers his own deeply emotional words and thoughts, too, in video [...]

Today I'm sharing three short, real life, inspirational stories with you.  All three are totally different, having only in common a deep reverence and enthusiasm for life.  I believe each one is vastly important, or else I wouldn't be putting each here today.  I want you each to please take a few minutes to go [...]

We had a great holiday weekend and got some real bargains, too, guys. I mean - only the finest for us. As in cheap.
So, what did we do and what did we get? We spent Friday night and Saturday on the coast with our friends in their FEMA trailer, which was […]

First below is my short post from a year ago tomorrow (Saturday) night - several hours before Katrina actually hit. I was already on the road fleeing what would be its terrible wrath.
This morning is the first time I’ve read these words again and they still, one year later, give me a chill.
I knew, but […]

Due to circumstances way beyond my control, my somewhat mixed feelings about the Christmas holidays to begin with (I hate crowds, materialism, etc.) have slid down to around Zero - zilch. If any of you have to ask why, go back and read some of my posts this entire year and maybe you'll get a [...]

Today is a day of remembrance, despite the turmoil and devastation all around us, even out our windows into what was our yard and in the house, where carpets have been ripped up and mildew and mold have taken reign. This is a day of remembrance despite my deep fatigue at being on the [...]