What I Almost Told Them

Yesterday when everyone was

relaying their hurricane stories,

I so wanted to tell them the

special parts, how Jim and I

would sit on the lanai all

evening, without the TV 

distraction, and listen to

music and talk and watch the

sunset colors on the eastern

clouds and suddenly realize

Jupiter is rising bright and the 

stars are appearing. The woodpecker

on the Sabal Palm that had stood

up to the wind, brave and 

unrelenting in its will to

hang on. The herons. The

turtles. Our connection to it all.

The Sabal Palm that stood up to Ian