Carrie’s Painting of the Week
Storm Before the Storm
By Carrie Jacobson
With every blast of wind, every buffeting bluster, with the storm twisting the landscape, stirring up the autumn grass, with every moment of approach and every iota of intensity, my most primal being measures fight or flight, and comes more and more alive.
In New York, where we lived on the bank of a river that flooded, raging and dangerous, fear overtook me, and the only respite – after the first, terrifying, catastrophic losses – came in flight.
Here, so far, staying seems safe, with my fighting soul in full glory.
If the time comes to leave, I will know. We both will. We will recognize the overwhelming wave of fear, and get out before it crashes on our storm-swept shore. But for now, it is exciting, exhilarating, enlivening.
In storms like this, I meet my deepest self, and take the measure of my heart.
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Want to see Wachapreague, VA, (our Eastern Shore town) Monday morning at high tide? Click here!
