Chapter 16: "What?!" Carles shouted.
We've all heard something that turned our lives upside down. We learned a fact about someone we never expected. We receive an email or a phone call with unwelcome news--the death of a friend, a marriage, a dream. It doesn't have to be something drastic like a Stage-Four Cancer diagnosis. It can be something like not getting a job you really wanted, or learning your best friend is moving away.
Suddenly this big change thrusts itself into your life and whether you like it or not, you have to deal with it. Few of us have the space or the energy to take this mighty change in stride. How do we cope? What do we free up to allow us the resources to deal with this? What impact will it have?
As war threatens the country, refugees flee to Sacred Spring--a village that's already got trouble enough on its own without needing the problems of others. So what happens when Carles Priest from Crossroads shows up in Sacred Spring with a whole lotta problems to dump on Natan Mayor? Sacred Spring shares its own problems with Carles. He's just been handed a bucket of WTF.
Interesting that this post is on 10 Sept. In 2001, I learned on 10 September that I was pregnant. Now, I'd been pregnant before, but always lost my babies. This news for me, on this day, was one of both dread and joy. Yay, I was pregnant. But would it be a keeper?
The next day a friend calls us on the phone. "You watching TV?" No. "Turn on the TV." Why? "Just turn it on."
So we did. And so did the rest of the world.
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Her Grace thinks she might be one of the very few people who remembers 10 Sept 2001.
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