Hurricane Sandy

The warnings about Hurricane Sandy were clear.  This storm would be powerful and would mimic "the perfect storm". Hurricane Sandy, named just a few days before her landfall arrival, and the other weather events on the east coast combined forces. Hurricane Sandy, aka the Super Storm, lived up to the reputation that preceded her. She became a super storm that dumped plenty of sand and left destruction behind.  She huffed and she puffed and she blew many houses down.
Warning systems are important when we choose to live at the water's edge.  Here in a densely populated area of  the east coast,  many of us love to get our feet wet on a regular basis.  Living near the vast ocean gives a sense of wide open space.  Having lived inland for several years, the need to feel that openness of the ocean is palpable.

Consider the Fence

     Clint Eastwood wanted us to consider an empty chair as he spoke at the Republican party convention this past August.  The empty chair has become symbolic in this political fight.  The president's chair is not an easy chair to fill under any circumstances.  The chair of the United States of America presidency is considered the place where the leader of the free world sits.  So, consider who you really want to fill that chair.  Will it become someone who treasures freedom from its very conception?  Or will it be someone who would deny freedom at conception?  Will it be someone who denies inalienable rights or someone who has already denied them?  Will it be someone who will protect those rights?  (added for clarity- parables are sometimes confusing).
     Many people will not consider the chair this election, instead they will consider a fence.