Toughness

{Scenes Approaching Southwest Marco Island, Florida Dock Motoring In Her Battered Vessel From Category 4 Hurricane Helene In Southwest Cabbage Key, Island Florida In The Dark Late Evening On 9.26.24, The Author Took Further Refuge For Food And Safety 50 Nautical Miles South In Crashing Enormous Seas To Nervously Take Heed From Yet Another Developing Monster Hurricane A Week Later, Named Milton, In The Gulf Of Mexico}

“New Paradise”

October 28, 2024

By Kimmy Foulds

[As the author shares recent catastrophic first-hand hurricane experiences that might get old to hear by others not near, she is adamant as an advocate to educate, inform and support the authenticity of genuine natural serious life threatening problems of various consequential severities with climate change, global warming, sea level rise and sustainability that actually affect every human and animal on this humongous glorious blue rotating marble called, Earth, on significant elements of independent individual living and world-wide communities as social surviving for future decades that impact an immeasurable array of generations for their livelihoods and activities among their neighborhoods.]

Advancing to the author’s boat slip on the tropical eerie Southwest Marco Island, Florida of the Ten Thousand Islands area known as La Isla de San Marcos by the mid-1500s Spanish explorers for Gospel writer St. Mark, churning Hurricane Milton was strongly wobbling from an increased gusting Category 2, 3, 4, 5 and back down to a 3 as destructional Mother Nature was ramping up in the Gulf of Mexico as the author was intentionally slowly white-knuckled cruising for safe harboring as record-breaking storm surge flooding remained evident just days ahead from Hurricane Helene when she arrived in her dilapidated dented sliced boat and suffering puttering engine without the Bimini top torn in roaring marine gales at the destined marina for protection, water, food and mooring assistance.

Though traumatized from navigating the fierce salty force aqua brine huffing, puffing blows too close and grave excruciating atmospheric conditions as the loud pounds of outrageous thunder bolt sounds were sensed in the stormy alone journey predicaments of sentiments, the Swedish Scot-Irish author arrived and tethered her boat ropes at the sinking and fragile Southwest Marco Island, Florida boat dock where she witnessed leveled swimming pools that were previously entertained by full disinfectant chlorine water, confined evacuated shorelines that were earlier populated in vast mass, flattened buildings with piled blasts of inconceivable sky high amounts of sand as a demolition sight to shelter in the right danger place with constant whispered prayers as Category 3 Hurricane Milton plummeted on landfall with its wild desolate ravaged winds in the inky grim evening 10.9.24 to divulge perspectives ashore for once was will never be the same as before.

Looking forward and onward with creative positivity in sweet lights of unfamiliar normal, the author is shocked to observe her environments but is wholeheartedly with peace in her surroundings that have become rough situations to withstand hardship adverse losses that will never be the same again and has realized for many years that landscapes alter with each plunder of severe weather tragedies as cyclones, earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, sea level rises, snowfalls, tornadoes, typhoons and more occurrences develop into new paradises of qualities that seem broken or torn in spirit as wreckages of ruins can turn grit and faith in God above of one’s soul to be powerfully determined in armor coping for survival efforts to be resiliently told.

Perseverance in the face of upheavals can be compassionately touched with gentle toughness for triumph to be gratefully real to heal, improve and move in the groove to get up when down with optimistic recoveries as the Lord Jesus Christ provides the gumption of confidence to never leave one’s side, which is dear to the author who pulled her around in a straight path of heartache relief from her frightened torturing strenuous waterway solo wraths in believing in God’s saving grace scriptures, “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.,” Psalm 46:1-3 New International Version (NIV) of the Christian Bible; Still, the best-selling book of All time.

There is an ongoing point of interest for further knowledge and references due to climate change and other serious matters affecting the author’s Southwest Florida islands and community beaches that have been spreading into the Southern States of America, called flesh-eating bacteria, that is causing sickness among people and is growing wide-spread as lethal.

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"Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles." — Alexander George Karras, who was famous as an American professional football player, professional wrestler, sportscaster and actor, highlighting his idea that true toughness comes from mental fortitude and willpower, not just physical strength.