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Recovery Update July 2023
As I pulish these posts, I hope that a future natural disaster survivor will find this blog and find comfort in my words. It is a long and tedious journey with lots of setbacks and small steps forward. You can’t lose hope, you have to keep up the fight. As of today here is what…
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Gratitude
Gratitude has been a buzz word for several years now, and with good reason. Starting your day with gratitude is especially powerful as it sets the tone for your day. Frequent reminders throughout the day don’t hurt either! I work for a local roofing company here in Southwest FL where there were 800,000 insurance claims…
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It’s ok to feel crappy.
I am having a little bit of a pity party today. It’s hot here, 87 or 807, is there really a difference? The A/C doesn’t really do much when the temp gets this high, and the heat makes me feel cranky and irritable. Most days I’m positive, indutrious and in the “onward and upward” frame…
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Alignment and receiving.
It has been a tumultous week. On Wednesday we were driven out of our home at 10 pm by large swarms of mosquitos. Thankfully we had a safe place to sleep ,and a good friend to close up the opening between the house and the attached garage. Once it was closed off, we set off…
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Getting back up
Resilience is generally about getting back up when you get knocked down. It has been 7 months since Hurricane Ian. It’s been a wild ride since then, but it’s also been a strange kind of pause. I have felt like I was in another dimension, where the only goal is survival and a grasp on…
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Hurricane Survivors
Part I We moved to Florida in March of 2020, as the world was shutting down. We had our struggles as we looked for work and housing, finally settling into our home on October 2, 2020. Just shy of 2 years later, our home was destroyed by a Ian, a Category 5 hurricane. Our part…
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