As I'm sure many do these days, as we approach the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I often marvel at how normal things were just over two years ago. I will always be thankful for our visit here just a few weeks before the storm. When things were just normal. Not the "new normal."
I was six months pregnant, and some friends had a baby shower for us. Inevitably, when I pick up one of the items we received at that shower, I think about the fact that when people gave us these things, they had no idea. They couldn't begin to fathom. None of us could. That life here was about to be turned upside down. That many of our belongings were about to be washed away. Some were to burn down to the ground.
In that perspective, the books and stuffed animals that MrMan enjoys are endowed with a greater significance. Not only were they given with love, they were some of the last things people could afford to give for a while.
Wow.
Posted by: +mojan. at August 28, 2007 04:04 AMThe items do become much more emotionally significant. Hopefully, life will be a little more normal each anniversary.
Posted by: FFG at August 28, 2007 06:49 AM