We go back to school tomorrow...

the kids don't come until the following day.

We've all been through a lot. And with another storm, Maria, heading in our direction, the trauma might not be over yet.

I was very fortunate, staying with others who never lost electricity.  My own residence, the RV, has had power restored.  Many others in the area still have not.  That would be a small thing to some; not to us privileged Americans.

All the same, if Maria comes our way, I am evacuating this time, going back to Carolina until the mess is over.   I earned my stripes with Irma.

Wow...was I REALLY ever that young???

Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church has been a real blessing for me.  Tonight, a young girl, about 7, I would guess, came all the way down the pew to exchange the greeting of peace.  Don't think that would ever happen back in Greensboro.  People here are incredibly friendly.

Haven't serious pondered the future. Not really, particularly during the past week or so.  I was too obsessed with the present.

90 MPH, hurricane force winds, will do that for you.

So will being a "refugee."

But I say, yet again, that I was incredibly lucky.  I've endured far worse after ice storms in Carolina. Given a choice, I would rather be hot than cold.  And the dark doesn't seem as ominous when you aren't faced with freezing to death.

It got plenty cold last winter.  RJ didn't make things any more tolerable.  I don't think I will ever reside in that RV park again.  Not even sure I will make anymore visits to the western mountains. As I believe I have commented on before, my main cause for doing that was white water kayaking. That was something that Mike forced on me, in hindsight.  Now that I no longer have my jeep or my kayak nor a desire to ever talk to the Griffins again...well, it all seems moot.

without a doubt

Sometimes I still marvel that it took me so long to realize I needed to separate myself from that. No real surprise, though; look how long it took me to figure out my relationship with Mary.

I still find myself wondering how it is that I keep hooking up with toxic people.  Ma Barker?

Birds of a feather?  Lord, I hope NOT.