Surviving Catastrophe - Part I

Throughout last week, I was an emotional wreck - obsessed with facebook postings and dribbles of messages coming from my friends in Western North Carolina. For five days, we didn’t know if they were alive. The morning of the Writing Symposium, I snapped off a news report, needing to keep my focus and not let fear take over. It was a couple more days before we began to hear details of how their idyllic home and land had been ravaged by Helene's catastrophic impact.