Words of Peace
I would like to take a moment to reflect upon the family, friends, and community of whom I am surrounded by every day. Two house fires have been spoken to my person as having taken place since the summer of 2013. The first one that I experienced as a member of the worldly community was one that happened to a family that is very close to my own. That family is the Haywood family. A son of theirs by the name of William Haywood was cooking fried chicken one day, and while waiting for the chicken to finishing cooking, he went to care for the family's dog - by some device of walking it or seeing to what it needed - and during that process, the home set to flame inevitably resulting in the entirety of the structure being engulfed. William Haywood was found completely safe and unharmed when services arrived, and since then the Haywoods have relocated to another neighborhood that is only a car's distance from where they previously stayed. The second one that has transpired, by report, was one that happened to a university professor I was taught by at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His name is Professor Norman Leavens, and he taught Comparative Religion (ANTH 320) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. These two house fires are examples of how even though destruction happens, there is always a means by which to subsist when one reaches out to community for calm, assurance, care and safety. I wish a peace unto the Haywood home as well as the Leavens home and also a peace for those who walk the world as persons not only safe but individuals upholding of that standard of safety as well.
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