A couple months ago I published a blog entitled "The Storm" (http://whywhereforewhat.blogspot.com/2011/12/storm.html). Current circumstances are requiring revisitation, or rather, elaboration on that particular train of thought ...
The eye of a hurricane can be quite lovely and both awe and fear inspiring. To bask in wonderful sunshine with rippling water and a slight gentle wind, completely surrounded by a towering mass of seemingly impenetrable clouds .... the only problem is which area of the cloud bank to brave in an effort to get to the other side of the storm. Any direction you choose will be a swift and terrifying change in atmosphere where maximum force winds that whip the sea and sky into a frenzy rein. The harshest area of exit from that eye would definitely be the right front quadrant, where the fullest extent of fury in winds, rain, waves, and subsequent storm surge are an unavoidable reality. The question then arises, how does one determine which direction is that harshest quadrant to be avoided, if one is existing inside the eye?
Life and the universe in which it exists seem to have ways of making that choice for you. Sometimes they send you through the lower intensity eyewalls, where the winds aren't as strong and the waves not as ferocious, even though it may not seem so at the time ... and sometimes they send you directly through the heart of the monster. Testing every ability you have to endure, to exist, to survive. Traveling through the worst case scenario doesn't necessarily end when you reach land on the other side of the storm if the surge was completely devestating .... so many layers and facets that one may feel completely submerged even after your feet hit terra firma.
The fact of the matter is, though, all storms are of finite proportions, no matter how large, ferocious, and havoc wreaking they may seem. Keeping your head above water and actively reaching that land mass ... sorting through the debris and making sense of the destruction surrounding you ... it is possible to reach that calm ocean, sunny sky, starlit night & sense of clear air order on the other side of that storm....
Back to swimming .................
~ The Girl In The Little Black Dress
The eye of a hurricane can be quite lovely and both awe and fear inspiring. To bask in wonderful sunshine with rippling water and a slight gentle wind, completely surrounded by a towering mass of seemingly impenetrable clouds .... the only problem is which area of the cloud bank to brave in an effort to get to the other side of the storm. Any direction you choose will be a swift and terrifying change in atmosphere where maximum force winds that whip the sea and sky into a frenzy rein. The harshest area of exit from that eye would definitely be the right front quadrant, where the fullest extent of fury in winds, rain, waves, and subsequent storm surge are an unavoidable reality. The question then arises, how does one determine which direction is that harshest quadrant to be avoided, if one is existing inside the eye?
Life and the universe in which it exists seem to have ways of making that choice for you. Sometimes they send you through the lower intensity eyewalls, where the winds aren't as strong and the waves not as ferocious, even though it may not seem so at the time ... and sometimes they send you directly through the heart of the monster. Testing every ability you have to endure, to exist, to survive. Traveling through the worst case scenario doesn't necessarily end when you reach land on the other side of the storm if the surge was completely devestating .... so many layers and facets that one may feel completely submerged even after your feet hit terra firma.
The fact of the matter is, though, all storms are of finite proportions, no matter how large, ferocious, and havoc wreaking they may seem. Keeping your head above water and actively reaching that land mass ... sorting through the debris and making sense of the destruction surrounding you ... it is possible to reach that calm ocean, sunny sky, starlit night & sense of clear air order on the other side of that storm....
Back to swimming .................
~ The Girl In The Little Black Dress
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