Earthquake ― Skip Tried To Tell Me

 The neighbor’s dog Skip, always says hello with a gentle bark.  Today was different.  I first thought; he really wants to tell me something.  In my hurried state, because of company staying over, I quickly asked if his people were ok.  He responded they were and continued barking, not of stress or emergency, more of; I really want to tell you something.  At that moment my over night company called my attention.

Skip lived in St. Thomas for several years where earthquakes were a normal occurrence, and was familiar with what was about to happen.  It was later I remembered his thoughts had taking me into the ground.  Being in my thinking mode, I took this to be the workers out side of our building who had been working on corrections from a mud slide.

I told a friend about Skip and so wishing I had given him the time he deserved.  She said back, “Even if he had told you, would you have believed it?  We never have earthquakes.”  I realized to some degree she was right.  I then remembered we never have mud slides, and in my minds eye had seen one in the back of our townhome months before it happened.  I did not believe then either.

In these times paying close attention to animals, nature and our instincts is important on many levels―particularly when it does not seem to make sense.

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