I was interviewing a guy for the book and he was recounting the horrid story of his Katrina aftermath and I said, well, how are you doing now with it all? And he said, “Baby steps.”
Ain’t that the truth. Interestingly enough it turns out he is a midcentury furniture freak and so he loved the house and the furniture and said that he and I are probably the only ones in this town that know what it is all about.
We talked about evacuating and he said he didn’t think he would – he said he had evacuated for two weeks to Atlanta and ended up getting mugged there – why leave home? he thought – I’d rather be here where I can be doing something.
My wish is for another benign hurricane season but the storms we have had in the past two weeks have been a little unnerving. Big deep breath and baby steps.