EVERYBODY’S SHOES
August 2, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
There have been so very many tragic earthquakes, cyclones, volcanoes and tornadoes in the month of May, 2008, occurring in scattered locations all over the world. None have yet occurred in the areas where I have traveled, so I’m not visualizing a new friend and wondering if they have survived the recent tragedies. But, my potential friends are there and I just haven’t traveled yet to that part of the world to meet them. When I was in Central America, looking down into the cone of a smoldering volcano, or gazing up the slopes of another one, watching the lava show every night; I knew that it was simply an accepted reality that they will blow, someday. That seems to be the case in the Ring of Fire all over the Pacific. But, it will be a true horror and tragedy when that day comes for those who have built houses right up the mountainside. I sat beside the pool of my hotel in Costa Rica one night, chatting with the bartender as we watched the bright red lava run down from up above. Why the beautiful houses up there and why are the hotels around here expanding and building with such optimism? Wasn’t he worried about getting caught in a modern-day Pompei? “Oh, no! Not at all! Because of the direction of the earth’s rotation, any lava will pour down the other side and not onto us!” Read more
