Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Old Man River


William Faulkner called the Mississippi River "The Old Man"..
He wrote about the 1927 flood in a story with the same title..
The characters dealt with the upheaval of their lives and land..
The river was a slow moving meandering nightmare..
The Old Man is flowing once again into places he hasn't been in a long time.
Many folks will lose everything, slowly, eerily..
Fertile farm land will be ruined for years..
unusable..
thousands of acres of cotton and soybean gone..
Homes destroyed..
keep these people in your prayers,
they have a long hard road in front of them.

wkm
Nashville

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