Happy New year Everyone!
I want to start off by saying yes I am very aware that I haven't posted in... well quite awhile. A lot has happened. So, I have overall been great.. and some lovely things have happened. I came off some medication I had been taking for more than half of my life; eleven years to be precise. My parents decided that we will be returning to China this year to bring number six home... I'll make a whole other post about that though. Some other things have happened as well that aren't so great. In October my Grandmother died and that just Crushed me. It's been very difficult living without her but hey life goes on, Right? I also recently lost one of my best friends but in the end I guess if they left they weren't ever much of a real friend anyway so I try to not be too sad about it (Hence the word "Try" haha). Then something happened in My community last week Which is the main topic of tonight's post.So, I live in a city that’s populations is mostly African Americans and then there are some whites, Latinos, Asians etc.. personally I am white not that it really matters. Recently we had tornadoes touch down and destroy a lot of our city, houses, businesses, doctors offices Now just a pile of what used to be what made our city. Since all of this people had nowhere to go. A lot of places are still without power and will be for quite a few weeks. I’m saying all of this because people want to talk about how much racism is a problem and it most definitely is but this past week my city has come together in ways I would’ve never expected. So, Monday night everyone was going about there business as we all (well most) Ignored the tornado watches because we have them quite often here however the likelihood of an actual tornado is usually quite small. It wasn't until the alarms started blaring outside that I even realized it had gotten bad.We aren’t seeing skin color, religion, social class etc. We were all terrified and we are all devastated.. some more than others; I personally had no damage done to my house thankfully. Churches have provided food, shelter, comfort etc. the State theater, civic center and other stable structure have opened their doors to families to come sleep. Non profits have come in to help clean up and I have never been more proud of my community. I’ve learned disasters can separate people or bring them together and while our city might not be together anymore our community certainly is.
That is all for today. I'm going to Attempt to start making posts more frequently as I find it relatively therapeutic; Maybe every 2-3 months or once a month.. we'll see.
Until next time, Maria
