On goths and remembrance
It's World Goth Day, among other things. I used to wear gothic touches with my clothes.
I was a hippie at heart during high school, pairing my long hair with tie-dyed shirts and Mama's love beads. But if I was in a weird mood I'd throw in a black necklace with crosses or a few studded bracelets. I never was fully goth, but I admired the aesthetic and had a lot of respect for any goths I met. I still do. Not everyone is that way, as the tragic murder of Sophie Lancaster shows.
My favorite subgenre of gothic style is pastel goth.
My favorite subgenre of gothic style is pastel goth.
Yep, pink can be gothic! When I learned that I was...well, tickled pink! I've always loved colors too much to be fully gothic myself, so when I learned that there WAS a way to work colors in I was all for it. Now...that being said, I'm NOT a pastel goth myself. I'm an ordinary country woman who wears what's comfortable, usually in bright colors and with two or three necklaces, plus some goofy earrings and the hair bow of the day. But I love gothic touches here and there.
I also wear black to remember, as it's the anniversary of the Joplin tornado. Joplin is three hundred miles from Malden, but a tornado of that magnitude was felt by the whole state, and thus I don't let May 22nd go by without stopping to remember the folks who died. As is often the case with mass casualty events, a couple'a whole families died, and a few who died laid down their lives to protect someone else. It was a terrible event; seasoned storm chasers cried at the sight of so many dead and wounded, and the whole state mourned. But thank God, Joplin is recovering. The scars will always be there, but Joplin is healing. Some towns aren't so lucky (Missouri's best example of a tornado ghost town is Melva). This tree here is my favorite of Joplin's healing processes.
I love birds and I love colors, and I think this is an extraordinary way to cheer up citizens while incorporating wreckage into recovery. If (God forbid) Malden ever has a tornado like that, I want to do something similar. Hell, I don't need a tornado to do it! Maybe Greenfield, Iowa can do something similar. The rating and the death toll at Greenfield are not set in stone, but I'm predicting about twenty-five dead and an EF-4 rating. Too much has been left standing for it to get the highest rating.
And now I'm gonna batten down the hatches for my own wave of violent weather! This spring has been a rough one.
Windy love,
RagingMoon1987
I also wear black to remember, as it's the anniversary of the Joplin tornado. Joplin is three hundred miles from Malden, but a tornado of that magnitude was felt by the whole state, and thus I don't let May 22nd go by without stopping to remember the folks who died. As is often the case with mass casualty events, a couple'a whole families died, and a few who died laid down their lives to protect someone else. It was a terrible event; seasoned storm chasers cried at the sight of so many dead and wounded, and the whole state mourned. But thank God, Joplin is recovering. The scars will always be there, but Joplin is healing. Some towns aren't so lucky (Missouri's best example of a tornado ghost town is Melva). This tree here is my favorite of Joplin's healing processes.
And now I'm gonna batten down the hatches for my own wave of violent weather! This spring has been a rough one.
Windy love,
RagingMoon1987
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