All Ain't Well, But It's Much Better

[Bob Peale]

Thank you so much, everyone. You're words, thoughts and prayers really have helped make a surreal situation a lot more manageable.

I have since heard from almost everyone I needed to, and they are well...shaken, but well. So far, I don't know of anyone that died, but EVERYONE I know felt the ground/house/building shake in whichever city they were in.

The intention of my post "A Shredded Sense of Security" wasn't so much to highlight my pain as much as it was to try to help people understand what the people at ground zero, or the people who lost loved ones because THEY were at ground zero, are going through. As I read the boards yesterday, I read a lot of things that, while well meaning, didn't take into account that for some of us, our horror and outrage extended well past CNN.

It's very, very weird...my whole life, I've lived in a city that had a big red bullseye painted on it on someone's map. Like most people in that situation, you learn to paint your world with a patina of perceived invincibility, if only so that you don't have to think about the fact that if the Russians, or the Shiites, or any number of factions/terrorists/nuclear powers gets a wild hair up their ass everything you know could be decimated. And after awhile, you start to believe that it can't happen.

Yesterday, many of us learned that we need a Plan B. It's too bad the school's are closed today, because I could really use the sound of children laughing and playing as thet frolic on their way to school today. But, if I've learned nothing else in the last 24 hours, I've learned that for some of us, there's always tomorrow.

Thank God.

 

[MissTaken]

I am praying for you and all affected by this tragedy, Bob.

 

[Shylady]

Bob if you don't work today, you could go help your boys finger paint or just give them big hugs.

I know thier laughter is the best medicine for you.

 

[Bob Peale]

They've been sitting here with me typing the whole morning.

Say hello, Thing 2:

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[Shylady]

ahhh I see he has the same gift for words his dad does

 

[Bob Peale]

Hey, you're right! I'm pretty sure I used that same line in one of my stories

 

[Shylady]

ahhh must be why it sounded so familiar to me.

 

[MissTaken]

Thanks Thing 2!

*chuckles*

for the first smile my face has experienced in quite some time.


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Response from my Thing 2!

*Who knows? A romance in the works? *

She is three years old, has blond hair and hazel eyes. She enjoys long days at the beach with mud in her hair, tumbling down the stairs and throwing toys and other inanimate objects at dinner time.

She is looking for the same in a new friend.

 

[SimplySouthern]

Re: Thanks Thing 2!

has blond hair and hazel eyes. She enjoys long days at the beach with mud in her hair, tumbling down the stairs and throwing toys and other inanimate objects at dinner time.

She is looking for the same in a new friend.

Funny...she reminds me of the last guy I dated. Sad but true.

 

[Bob Peale]

Re: Thanks Thing 2!

*chuckles*

for the first smile my face has experienced in quite some time.


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Response from my Thing 2!

*Who knows? A romance in the works? *

She is three years old, has blond hair and hazel eyes. She enjoys long days at the beach with mud in her hair, tumbling down the stairs and throwing toys and other inanimate objects at dinner time.

She is looking for the same in a new friend.

Well, it's a package deal: Thing 2 doesn't go anywhere without Thing 1.

They're both 2, blonde hair, grey green eyes, enjoy long walks to the fridge and anything that involves the potential for damage (preferably to themselves). But the good thing is, they each come with their own guaranteed parts donor.