Not cynical, just being practical
Sipping coffee lookin at my lake
I see President Trump has pledged American support to those in the earthquake areas. I doubt those people will get any support from countries such as Qatar, not to single them out but you understand.
Ever hear of Gordon Sinclair, he was a Canadian radio person, he spoke of “the Americans”
This isn’t N.C. , it was just down the road some,
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Unlike other places, no trucks with blankets, or food, water or even toothpaste came up this way, let that sink in for a moment, so no one is comin, kinda narrowed it down a bit, local people with heavy equipment just started in, business donated food and gas, with no eletricity stuff started being dropped off, my smokers were running constantly chickens and turkeys,bottle gas, chips other stuff, the people set things proper again. It did leave a mark in the memory for those in these woods.
DO NOT COUNT ON ANYONE
The Finnish have a word that really cannot be translated
SISU
derived from the Finnish word sisus, meaning “interior” or “guts”
It embodies the ability to persevere and take action in the face of extreme adversity, often when challenges seem insurmountable
So I’m lookin at some maps
Not a problem
What’s this
Close
no cigar for you!
There’s reason why we may survive those items along with SISU
the winds off the lake, she has her own weather
Anno, we are not totally out of the woods so to speak, there’s this thing it’s called
that comes around every now then
yeah, that can be a problem,
before anyone yells in the back “WHAT YOU GONNA DO NOW HHMM?”
Well we ain’t going to lay around and cry, there’s time for crying later, we got stuff do
We’re gonna do what we always do
Adapt, Improvise, Move on
Just being practical
