Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Is that a magnitude 8.7 or are you just happy to see me?

April 3rd, a few days after I reappeared on Bill’s bleeping cabaret-dar, a tornado outbreak pureed parts of Dallas/Fort Worth but no one was killed. At the same time I’m looking at Bill’s video, the screen starts to strobe and flash and the whole computer goes on the blink… I don't think a Mac is supposed to do that!

But there’s more: on April 7th, a jet fighter crashed and burned into a residential block in Virginia Beach. Again, no casualties… it was dubbed the Easter Miracle.

Wasn’t that nice?  Now a couple days later, 8.7 and 8.5 magnitude earthquakes off the coast of Sumatra trigger a tsunami warning for 28 countries which sends everyone running for the hills… yet not only was the wave cancelled, but there were no fatalities and no major damage. I was touched. We were all overjoyed by the good news!

The next day a 6.9 off the coast of Mexico shakes buildings causing minor damage and again no casualties. And to add the cherry on top, Iceland forgives the mortgage debt of a majority of its citizens. Wow! It was Buddha in the backseat week!

Now the dust has settled and we’re back to wreaking havoc. On April 15th, Woodward, OK lightning took out a tornado siren in the middle of the night leading to 5 deaths and 20 injuries.  Shall we dance? To quote Martha Graham, “Movement never lies.  It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it”.