Adversity is like a strong wind.  It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.  ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

Quite by surprise a blog I posted in March 2011 appeared in my computer downloads. Never assuming anything is without purpose I have decided to repost this one from my archives. It begins with my thoughts on the March 11, 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami off the coast of Japan.