Hello, God, It's me, Mara

You know, Lord, wind can really kick up storms, or sometimes, maybe, wind just has “fun” tossing lovely autumn leaves around,

hither and thicker. When storms happen, depending on where one lives, wind strips the last leaves off the nearby trees, then we see farther. That’s when we notice there are “things” out there that we could trip over. We could call them tripping hazards that have been hidden when the nearby trees were lush with growth. Who notices hazards then? Not most of us, but once trees are denuded; our line of vision probably extends hundreds of additional feet.

Since we’ve had an...