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Monday, July 25, 2011

Lightning Bolt

Late in the afternoon yesterday, I was out in my little room off the carport...The King of Paintings Throne Room...where I produce masterpieces and whatever. It was rainin' and gettin' bumpier by the minute. It's actually nice sittin out there listening to the rain and thunder...at a distance anyway.

I'd been out there just long enough to light a cigarette and settle down when there was a tight, sharp, metallic bang...LOUD! like somebody had fired a 44 magnum inside the little metal trash can next to my desk. I could feel the air pressure change and my mouth tasted like I had a penny under my tongue.

I thought it struck the house but, it was about 100 ft. from where I was sitting in the neighbors yard.

Lightening strike 040

That is one dead loblolly.



Maybe the blog got hit in the same storm.
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  1. natetinJuly 27, 2011 at 2:03 PM

    Old Heraclitus wrote: "Thunderbolt steers all things"; presumably - since we only have fragments of his writings culled from others' quotes - this is a reference to Zeus who was said, by the Ancient Greeks, to command bolts of lightening at will.

    To the mortal, lightening is frequently "like a bolt out of the blue" - a surprise; an unanticipated shock to the system that jolts one from other, more mundane, distractions like the hammer fall of a near death blow.

    The resultant awakening, one may speculate, may be compared to the clarity of purpose in the oneness that Zeus possess as "father of the gods"; hence, in so far as anything gets done, it is driven by this single pointed source of being - purposefulness - free and unfettered by the clouds of confusion and the multi-directional windsock of brainstorming exercises (and mixed metaphors).

    Or may be not.

    Of course, this is of little consolation to the tree.

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  2. natetinJuly 27, 2011 at 2:19 PM

    Let Mister Mitchum take it home with The Ballad of Thunder Road:

    http://youtu.be/tdwUpxkfSJw

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  3. e.f. bartlamJuly 27, 2011 at 6:50 PM

    You got that right.

    A lightning bolt is a very deliberate thing...poor tree.

    Try this one...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjq3_ASRb1s

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  4. AdamJuly 28, 2011 at 3:17 AM

    Thors riding the heavens in his goat pulled chariot again! We'll have on tonight or tommorow the way the weather has been lately, the air smells ready for it... and I don't mean the Akbari Chicken I ate last night

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  5. e.f. bartlamJuly 28, 2011 at 7:37 AM

    Ha.

    We're on it daily now...every afternoon it seems. I almost had to pull over yesterday on the way back from the Coast. Three times I hit patches of blinding rain.

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