Emotions are really wild – I had planned to write a piece about hurricanes, but it’s flipped and I’m going to go with emotions to start – basically because I’ve felt every emotion possible to a human in the past week due to a hurricane. Today is what would’ve been my Mom & Dad’s 66th wedding anniversary. So, I did what every good daughter does, I called my Mom and I cried to my 90 year old Mom about work and being tired. We talked, then we changed the subject 3 more times, because that’s a given when on the phone with Mom, and we ended up laughing. I just called my Mom and cried. I needed every second of that phone call and then I cried again when I told her I’m lucky to be calling and crying to her. I didn’t want to upset her, but well, I’m a Scorpio, there are years and times I’ve held in emotions, then there’s the one minute that they just all come out, and well, there you have it. Thanks Mom.
Now, for what it’s worth, anyone in the mood to hear about hurricanes? Well, hurricanes and emotions and zodiac signs and full moons, just all get pretty wild I guess. I evacuated my manufactured home. We were very lucky to have stayed with great friends — more on great friends another time because that in itself is worth an entire post. I can’t sum that up in one sentence here. We rode out the storm with talking about everything from ancestry to favorite baseball teams and how hard it is find good pizza in Florida! We lost power for 4 ½ days. The unknown of when will it come back wreaks another kind of havoc with just wanting the feeling of normalcy. It’s unfamiliar, its uncomfortable. Grateful, yet again, for one of many wonderful neighbors in our community who let us plug into his generator saving our ‘fridge and having hot coffee each morning. Grateful for all those who worked endlessly to restore our power in a relatively short time overall. I saw my son twice, each time helping us out, bringing us emergency supplies he was smart enough to stock up on, us, not so smart – we are working on that for next time. I watched a neighborhood grieve at losses of carports, roofs, lanai’s – I watched a neighborhood go above and beyond to help each other. Um, yeah, to say I’m not getting teared up again right now, that would be a lie. I watched people put food at the end of their driveways, just because some feeling of normalcy and food were comfort. I watched organizations drive through with megaphones yelling “hot meals”. I cried, again. Humanity stepped up. Kindness showed it’s ultimate place in my world.
Emotions and hurricanes are just going to be a continued part of life for me. I’ll ride them out to the best of my ability and take from them everything I can — resiliency, happiness, sadness, uncertainty, darkness, light, hopelessness, hopefulness, weakness, strength, endless kindness of others.
Hurricanes are the ultimate in stirring up debris, emotions will forever do their part to stir up life.
Sheils Writes 
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