There was a storm today. It came like a ninja – Silent and
Sudden and Deadly. It was over in twenty minutes but up until that point I was
afraid I would die as the building imploded under the load of rain and falling
trees. Afterward, when the rain had mostly stopped and the sky lightened, I
went outside because the power was out. Amazing things happen when electricity
disappears. Everyone was outside. People were social, milling about talking to
folks. A young couple was taking a walk in the rain and jumping in large
puddles. A few other folks were clustered around a tree that had fallen on a
trio of cars. Everyone was talking and laughing and children were playing. It
felt like Utopia. It wasn’t a writerly moment at all. It was full of cliché’s
and cheesy happiness: Pardon me while I puke. Still, I had been sitting at the
computer all day waiting for inspiration to strike me and it didn’t even come
close until the storm.
No power = sudden cheesy happiness? Makes me wonder if we,
in all the glory of technology, have lost something vital to our humanity.
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