From the Wreckage

Guilt. A painful, lonely feeling. It seeps into your pores slowly as you go through life day by day. Like a disease, it blackens your heart with thoughts and memories of what you did, or in my case, what you didn’t do.

Winston Churchill once said, 'Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Sweetie, they're your feelings, so they can't be wrong. It's what you do with them that makes all the difference, but you have the right to feel what you feel.

Minutes — that's all it takes to change your entire life. How do you deal with that? Not

You'll always carry these memories in your heart, baby. As for tomorrow, you’ll get through it. We all will, and then we’ll get through the next day and the one after that. This whole town will; minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. We will keep going.

But in reality...I excused myself and then stood in the hallway so I could hear every last word.

Minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. You will keep going’,

The Ice Shack is gone, and in its place is a blood red sky with a dark funnel cloud cutting its way to her.

Tornado Safety Tip: If you can't get to safety, lie flat and face-down on low ground, and protect the back of your head with your arms.

Their faces are black and white, men, women and children, young and old. Death doesn’t discriminate.

Honey, it's Tanya. She didn't make it, sweetie,

Minutes—that’s all it takes to change your entire life.

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One damn moment. That’s all it takes to change our lives,

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

I have endured, and now I am ready to conquer.