i am the child of the wasteland....a land of haunted houses and monsters i call father. dark talents run in the family, but i shatter the glass to let the moonlight in, not to destroy something fragile for the feeling of breaking beneath my fists. all i can do is scream, crawl out, and keep screaming. but i can hold the sparrow, mend its wing... i am the spring rain and the hurricane... the monsters cower now, not me, not you. *xn*

Monday, Feb. 10, 2003 - 12:34 pm

there is a book in the Little House on the Prairie series (the real deal by Laura Ingalls Wilder, not a TV show thing..)



and it stands alone as an amazing story- its called "The Long Winter". It really expresses the brutality and fear nature brings in the form of a bizarre and long winter of blizzards. Some people begin to starve, others make it through okay but feel the pain of the others who are dying slowly and one such person (Laura's future husband) risks his life when he doesn't have to. Its meant for children/teens but any adult would be fascinated to see a genuine look into the lives of desperate people. You come away from reading this believing you could survive anything because the descriptions of what they did are so complete and vivid. When the massive snowstorms hit us in NYC years ago that buried cars and shut down towns and places all around- it was fun. All the bars on our block were serving free hot spiced cider and people were warming up from photographing and filming the immense drifts- i wrote a postcard to the one person i knew in Hawaii just so he'd get a card from in the middle of all the snow. Cities have a tendency to turn people into grasshoppers (you know from the ant and the grasshopper story?) we just assume we'll find something somewhere- i do wonder how long it would take this city to "run out". So now with a winter storm warning we went out and bought a bunch of stuff just to have in case something does happen, it will probably just be rain but anyway... I never much thought about it until I read that book and it slowly seeped into me over time. To just assume stuff will be there is a very easy mindset to fall into here. seductive and deadly.

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