Are We There Yet? vol. 239
As I write this week, Hurricane Milton is approaching Florida’s west coast only two weeks after Hurricane Helene’s storm surge brought significant flooding and damage to that same area. By the time you read this, the storm will be gone, but those in its path will be dealing with trying to recover and get back to some semblance of normal.
When not in a crisis or worried about an impending one, our stress and anxiety tend to come from things that, during and after a true crisis, seem relatively insignificant, such as whether taxes will go up in the future or where a child will get into college. I'm not saying these everyday concerns shouldn't be addressed, but we should consider how much attention we give them and the anxiety they may cause. The true crisis provides some perspective as to what is important and what is really not that important.
As we pray for the safety of those in the path of Milton, we also can think about our own problems and concerns and try to give them the appropriate amount of significance in light of what others are going through. The trick is to retain this perspective in times when there isn’t a huge crisis. It would bring down stress levels and guide us to concentrate on what is truly important: family, friends, and community.
Take care and stay safe.
BOOK:
Intermezzo: a Novel by Sally Rooney
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties―successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women―his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude―a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
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