Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Watch For The Thing You Don't Expect

What were you doing 20 years ago today? Of the events that transpired, what memory stays with you, almost haunts you?

Quote: “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

Early morning was a scramble to get ready to go to school. Morning horse chores and the drive which was about a 16 mile commute kept me busy. I did not turn on my car radio and had no time to watch morning news.

I remember walking in and had almost arrived at the journalism classroom. Two professors were conversing outside the room in the hall. Someone approached me in the hall. Another student and told me the twin towers were burning. It was a terrorist attack. I answered this way. "So, that's the thing for this year." One of the professors turned to us and asked: "what did she say?" Then inside the classroom was someone directing everyone, that the school was closing, to go home or return to the dorms.

I had been having dreams about airplanes for awhile. There seemed to me, to be one major tragedy per year for some years previous. Ship hi jackings, school shootings, the military barracks attacked, Plane hi jackings. Atmospheric pressures seem to build up then bang something big and bad occurs.

I spent the rest of the day watching news coverage of the twin towers and the plane that went down in Pennsylvania. The worse part is always, that you cannot help anyone.

Some time this week I read a story online about someone, who was in the second tower, who phoned and asked should their floor evacuate? Who ever they called said no, then their tower was hit almost immediately and most of the people on that floor were killed. So, the stories will haunt us for years yet to come.

It's the aftermath of things, that would have meant something, if someone had acted faster. It haunts people later. These kind of stories linger.

I read about warnings in the government about a Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor that was ignored. There are lots of these kinds of warnings ignored. Then written about later in history writings.

The most recent I think is President Trump making light of the serious nature of Covid. Then the country being shut down. No one was prepared. So many jobs and businesses disrupted.

Be vigilant. I think it is better to tell someone, something might happen and be prepared even if you are laughed at; than to not bother to prepare and suffer the possible consequences. This is relevant today. I know people storing food for encase scenarios and I know people scoffing about such things.

Pennsylvania is giving out free potassium iodide tablets to people who live within a certain radius of the state's four active nuclear power plants.

I gave solar powered chargers to my grandchildren for Christmas two years ago. They can charge phones, notebooks, readers.

There are windup radios, windup flashlights and all kinds of solar lights now on the market. Don't be afraid to prepare for the just in case scenario. In the meantime think happy thoughts.

I wish you all Happy Trails each day forward.