As Friday’s winds rattled the landscape and ravished our senses, it dawned on me that nature is truly a multi-tasker.  Like a wild-fire that clears away dead, diseased and suffocating underbrush, the wind assisted in pruning out the weak, dead and dying branches, saving us a bit of time and energy….

Without so much as a warning or civic alert, the bombs began to fall.  Sparsely, at first, quickly ramping up to a barrage.  They fell with great velocity, unbiased yet fierce.  The driveway, lawn, roof, streets and cars – none of them  immune to the blitzkrieg.  We had been overrun quickly,…