My friend e, whom I love and adore in profound ways, was trying to tell us all on Sunday night, as we were nestled in a cozy house in Bel Air for Sunday night supper, how she survived a near-death experience at the horse show in Thermal (Coacella) and had forced her thirteen year old daughter (who nearly died with embarrassment) to lie face down on the ground as a huge twister came through the show grounds. She breathlessly told us about being parked in a gulley for half an hour while the monster weather came through, and we of course, smiled politely. Today this missive, which makes me laugh a Whole Lot:
our desert tornado was on the news last night---no one believed us
that it was actually a twister (problem of being a Storyteller) but
the thing blew through palm springs and took down a bunch of
mid-century modern houses and they had Shocked Eyewitnesses
breathlessly recapping. perhaps the oddest part of all of it---other
than the fact that while i was waiting for an airborne 18 wheeler to
land on top of us my life *didn't* flash before my eyes---was that
this massive vibrant double rainbow appeared on the horizon beside us
right after, and i had just had a picture of a double rainbow posted
on the blog. what absurd synchronistic precognizance that comes
from, i have no idea....
No comments:
Post a Comment