I have read two books and written 3 papers and a part of a story in the last week. Not to mention going and talking to a mortgage officer. I have been busy. But what i really wanted to talk about is thimbles.
Ok, no really.
Fear is a funny thing. We, as humans, deal with it on a daily basis (perhaps some more than others). We fear confrontation, we fear getting in a car wreck, we fear getting caught if we are doing something we aren't supposed to do. These are all of course just examples of what we may face on a daily basis. It is a unique thing to be able to see fear as it builds though. Hurricane Ivan is a very strong storm and it is taking its sweet time in the Carribean right now and it has people where i live (and I am included in this) kind of scared as to what is going to happen. It is a weird thing to have people boarding up their homes and leaving. People gather water and batteries and ply wood as if these items alone will keep them safe from mother nature's hungry storm, and in reality, it won't. This place becomes a ghost town when evacuations are issued. It's crazy. There was a storm that raged through here 30 years ago by the name of Camille and people still talk about it. The survivors (my parents are in that group) are all the paranoid people you see freak out when a storm is anywhere in the ocean. They have every right to be paranoid because one day they woke up and everything they ever knew had changed forever. Ivan is a strong storm. If it comes here it will be utter devestation and I don't know how I would handle coming home to god only knows what. The mass exodus will be interesting to say the least. There are a lot of people that live here now, and most of them have no idea what it is like to go through a hurricane. They are in for quite a shock. Think of how awesome a thing has to be that people leave their homes and towns in droves. How awesome is mother nature? I personally don't want to stick around to find out.