Following the explosion,  firefighters worked for days to extinguish the flames.  Anything that was sprayed froze in an eerie otherworldly fashion given the freezing temps.  Snow continued to fall.  The clean up was delayed.  Main Street remained closed.  Imagine my shock when Sheryl Sanders, LillyLu’s owner called me one month later to tell me she had found my fine art canvas print that was last displayed in her window, lying upside-down in the street.  Eerie as it was to have a ‘souvenir’ of this tragic event returned to me, I can’t seem to bring myself to dispose of it.  Probably because it survived while a beautiful young woman did not.

Today, I will take pause, pray and remember…