this morning #781.

this morning, i became the second member of my immediate family to get hit by lightning & the first to survive the experience. RIP uncle dicky. that it was me who got struck was a shock to absolutely nobody. that i’d survived definitely surprised them. my brother & i’d gone out to the field to shoot bottles & cans. after an hour out there, one hell of a storm rolled in. with no proper shelter to take, we opted for the next best thing: a mad dash across the open range between the shooting range & our house. my bro was always the athlete in the family & as he stepped onto the front porch, i, at least a hundred feet behind, got to walk in uncle dicky’s shoes while being thrown clear out of my own.