Wie geht's?
What a week! An 6.1 earthquake gave the house a shake to add a timely full stop to a week when Hawke's Bay was caught up in a National Emergency thanks to a tropical cyclone that swung by after visiting the north.
Cyclone Gabrielle did its best to wipe out a lot of stuff made by humans in Hawke's Bay, Gisborne, Auckland and Northland: crops destroyed; homes swept away; fatalities; water levels that ripped out bridges and roads; power out; cell phones useless...
It was a tough, challenging week but I kept these words from Ma in mind:
“Women can change better’n a man,” Ma said soothingly.
“Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”“Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s a jerk-gets a farm and looses his farm, an’ that’s a jerk. Woman, its all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain’t gonna die out. People is goin’ on-changin’ a little, maybe, but goin’ right on.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from The Grapes of Wrath
Love and peace to the North East and kia kaha - WNP
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