Helene

 September 27, 2028

The Helene Anniversary. Everyone’s Facebook and You Tube feeds overflow with images of wreckage and desolation. 

Morning rehearsal at First Baptist, then a performance at Pride in City-County Plaza. One tape has us sounding horrible, another has us sounding fine, so who knows? Mostly what you hear on the tape is the chatter of the crowd, so maybe it didn’t matter how we sounded. Finally a big hurricane memorial service at First Baptist. I think it went well. I made the fewest mistakes in the Lauridson Lux Aeterna that I had ever made. Tall H was planted right in front of me, so I could only guess what the conductor was doing. Fell asleep on the sofa, woke after 3 and staggered to bed. 

Question: “What are you going to do to commemorate the hurricane?” Answer: “Flush my toilet.”