The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually
taken over as a moveable feast with many participants supplying the Words.
When Delores closed her
blog forever due to other problems, Elephant's Child (Sue) took over
the role of coordinator.
Now, after Sue's demise, River has taken the mantle of coordinator upon her shoulders.
No matter what, how, where or who the aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to our mind.
This month the words are to be found at Mimi's blog: Messymimi's Meanderings.
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please leave a comment on
River's blog, then we can come along and read it and add a few encouraging
words.
It is also a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true.
So Please,
remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples'
stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this
one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need
encouragement.
And for today we were given:
1.prefer 2.myth 3.common 4.category 5.store 6.image
and/or:
1.flower 2.saintly 3.stormy 4.sheep 5.bank 6.face
Today I'll prefer a real experience to the myth I normally spin.
Today I was at a meeting in the room above the church, where we drink coffee after mass some Sunday. This is a common enough occurrence, but something happened to place this meeting in the "unforgettable" category. I hope to store this image in my mind for a long time. We sat talking, almost done with the agenda, as the building suddenly shook. Not much, but enough to upset us. It was a strange feeling. We discussed what it could be, had the house been rammed by a car, or had something blown up? We went to the windows and looked out. I saw a car reversing out of the parking lot - totally unharmed. Nowhere was there any smoke or any signs of anything untoward happening. No ambulance or police sirens were heard. We joked with it being an earthquake, but then again earthquakes does not happen in Denmark.
We finished our meeting. Did the dishes, watered the flowers and lit a candle in front of the saintly looking picture of Our Lady in the church downstairs before parting ways.
It was rainy and somewhat stormy, not enjoyable, so I hurried to the train station, only just noticing some fun, knitted sheep in a shop window, but as there was no branch of my bank in this town, I just caught the next train home. In the train I saw a familiar face. My son was in the same train. I asked him if he had noticed any shaking or something. He had not.
Back home I sat down and read the news. An earthquake of magnitude 3.9 actually hit Denmark today at 4.15 pm.
PS: I'm still haunted by "Bloogers" and still cannot always comment. I suspect many of you can't either, as there's even less than the usual number of comments on any post here.
Know that I read and enjoy still, and hope that you do the same.
Dear readers and co-bloggers, I am still only sporadically allowed to post comments on Blogger-blogs - including my own.
While waiting for an update to remedy this, know that I'm still reading and enjoying your blogs, and even if this situation is discouraging I'll try to post regularly.
Gracious, how startling it must be. We are on a fault line here, but it's not the kind which moves suddenly, it moves about an inch every hundred years or some such, I read about it once but don't remember exactly.
SvarSletI hope you don't have any more such occurences.
Danish natural phenomenons, like blizzards, tornadoes and Earthquakes, are all very tame. According to the heated news, it resulted in a few cracks in a ceiling and a toppled plasma TV set ;)
SletI found it an interesting experience. This is only my second earthquake. The first one made the glasses on our fridge tinkle violently, which woke me up in the wee hours of June 15, 1985.
I actually hope to live long enough to experience more of them.
An interesting true story, an earthquake! With a sudden shake like that I would assume earthquake too, especially if there was no noise with it, like if a big truck had hit the house there would be a lot of noise. I felt a small earthquake once in a city suburb while lying in bed, it was like the ground suddenly had waves like the ocean and then all was still again. The epicentre had been a long way off in the hills area.
SvarSletThe epicentre here was in the waters south-east of me. As it was only the third, or maybe fourth, "feelable" earthquake in Zealand in my lifetime (and the second I have noticed) it is not what we think of first, explosions, terror or accidents being way more frequent happenings ;)
SletThat's a very good description of the feeling, maybe a bit like some very big hand grasped one end of the building and gave it a good shake.
Your experience reminded of one time when I was alone in an office building and then the building shook and then I saw the news that it was an earthquake but in the city over that somehow leaked toward us. It was kind of scary since I was all by myself in the office. But thankfully, it was just a short shake.
SvarSletI'm glad you made it through. Still, I guess only a few people felt the vibration.
Have a lovely day.
This sounds very similar, and as you guess only a few felt it. I was the only one in my family. People in cars, public transports, underground, or just at ground level and not close to the epicentre did not notice anything. It was short. I liked to finally experience an earthquake.
Slet