It's been a while since I last posted, but I have been busy learning, thinking, living, and realizing some amazing things. Consider then...
Luck
A week ago we heard on the news that a tornado touched down in a mile wide stretch of Atlanta. Turns out this is about the same mile wide stretch of Atlanta we used to live in. Our good friends have houses in Cabbagetown and Reynoldstown and East Atlanta and we found ourselves staring at the computer and rivited to the news looking to be sure almost no-one was killed. How could a tornado touch down in the middle of town and not leave many many dead?! The luck of it struck us in our hearts because we are so far removed from tornados in our little northeast town. Or so we feel. But when we saw the trees in houses of our friend J., we gasped and then remembered that he was not home. He was on vacation. There are pictures from The Creative Loafing folks of the devastation but I can't find many of the clean up, the comraderie, the connected helping that goes on in that neighborhood.

Little drawings of owls
On a recent day of wandering I was in the public library and picked up two books in the art section to sit in a sunny spot and leaf through them. The books were seemingly very different, a French mistress of Picasso's and an American photographer, but both had bookmarks with the same distinctive owl. It looks familiar and I think I might be able to trace it to a friend or aquaintance, but the idea that they would appear on the same day in two books I happened to pick up struck me as something. I don't know what that something is.


And now here we are a few weeks hopefully from the warm days of sun, from the growing thing-ness of Spring, from open windows and greater optimism. Loose ends will be tied together in tidy little bows and there will be blooms again. I wish you sunny days and loss-free moments when the wind blows. Should losses come, here's hoping the re-building makes you stronger... it always does.

Rachael