{"id":3232,"date":"2017-09-04T12:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostpineslife.com\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2017-09-04T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:31:15","slug":"dragonfly-pond-renewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostpineslife.com\/?p=3232","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly Pond Renewed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hurricane Harvey<\/h2>\n

Hurricane Harvey dumped 27 trillion gallons of water on Texas and Louisiana damaging or destroying at least 185,149 homes and taking at least 50 lives. \u00a0Just minutes away from Little Piney dozens of homes flooded in Smithville. \u00a0Whole neighborhoods were devastated thirty miles east in La Grange. \u00a0In spite of 18 inches of rain at Little Piney, we sustained no damage.<\/p>\n

It has been heartening to see the response of Texans pitching in to help their neighbors with cash, donations, and labor, yet I can’t even comprehend the total amount of human suffering. \u00a0I can’t imagine where the labor and resources will come from and how long it will take to clean up and rebuild the coastal areas and inland towns destroyed by Harvey’s relentless winds and rain.<\/p>\n

Not being affected in any material way by Harvey, I feel relief mixed with survivor guilt. \u00a0We have been spared when so many people are displaced, in shock, and grieving. \u00a0The only reminders of Harvey at Little Piney are a dead tree down, branches littering the ground, and the dramatic refilling of Dragonfly Pond. \u00a0While the rebuilding of much of the state is daunting, it encourages me that an empty pond with a cracked-mud bottom was so quickly transformed back into a living host for dragonflies. \u00a0Nature unhampered by people knows how to recover and will. \u00a0I don’t think the recovery of our state will be easy in any way–buildings and homes don’t repair themselves; yet, Dragonfly Pond helps me to remember that\u00a0nature can heal and survive in all kinds of adversity, and the pure human spirit is one with nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some images from this weekend at Dragonfly Pond–<\/p>\n

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