THE STORM
A Gulfstream trailer I was sleeping in was overcome by a rising river in the middle of the night. I remember it even now, fifty years later, as such a breech of comprehension that I watched the whole thing from above (somehow) and giving myself good advice and information.
Chaos is remarkably traceable back to its nexus or black hole if you have this kind of perspective. Bubbles go up so you know where the surface is. The door will open once the pressure equalizes ... grab a thing that floats and keep it in front of you ... a pan can become a cudgel. So many things you need to know in the dark of liquid air and some voice guiding you ... don't lose your head ... make friends with the river, it picks favorites of the ones along for the ride.
Lucky? Maybe. I have friends that are living this now. The only thing I have to offer as a survivor is this ... you will never take LIFE again for granted and in every case in the future you will choose love over misery when it matters as the LIVING example of a beneficiary of grace. You will never again be alone.
Chosen.
Ted Cruz: "Well, one thing Congress could do is we could pass legislation returning to the old way it used to work if you were seeking a nationwide injunction, which is that a case that was seeking a nationwide injunction would go to a panel not of one, but of three district judges that would hear that, and then you would have a direct appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. I think there's a lot of merit to returning to that system, rather than having one rogue judge be able to issue an injunction and a nationwide injunction."
