I’ve been thinking a lot about earthquakes lately. I’m sure lots of people are thinking about earthquakes after all the recent rumbling and shifting that the earth’s crust has been doing. Living on a fault line doesn’t exactly help my earthquake anxiety either. So, as a way to alleviate my anxiety I have taught Beatrice what to do if an earthquake happens, and we have talked about what it would be like, where to go and what to do. The day before yesterday we did an earthquake drill – a spontaneous one. I saw Beatrice with a funny look on her face and when I asked her what was up she replied, “I’m pretending there is an earthquake!” So we pretended there was an earthquake together, and ran to hide beneath the oak dining table and imagined everything rattling around. I think about earthquakes just about every day. I suppose now that swine flu has blown over my anxiety needs something to fix itself onto.

Anyway, amidst all my thoughts of crisis and emergency, in between wondering where we might be when the big one hits, life continues on. Seedlings sprout, bumblebees bumble by on their way to pollinate the blueberry bush and the apple blossoms. Beatrice plays outside in the garden, picking little white sorrel flowers and arranging them into plastic ice cube trays. The sun shines, the earth remains still and silent beneath our feet.

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