Oklahoma!
The sun bore down gently as those famous Oklahoma winds swept through and over us. Hair flying, our clothes billowed from the gusts as we stood by. The song from the musical "Oklahoma!" echoed whimsically through my mind and I smiled. I should be accustomed to the oddities of my 'out of place' thoughts by now. Sometimes they surprise me, but I have come to welcome them when they occur. Rich, dark earth was piled in a mound 5 or 6 feet high. My unruly mind remembered a childhood game and I thought that as youngsters we may have laughed and climbed that pile of dirt to play "King of the Mountain". Today there was no laughter. No childish game. Only tears. Only the feeling that we had fallen off a cliff... are still falling. Our hearts breaking for their brokenness, we gathered around to support and offer love to those who had lost wife, mother, relative, friend. A tale was told about rocks. From the time she was a teenager, a friend an