The Humble Libertarian original

By: Wes Messamore The Independent Voter Network Image: DonkeyHotey

Wesley Messamore The Independent Voter Network Gage Skidmore

The Humble Libertarian was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee. The Humble Libertarian's father and mother are the Sun and the Moon. The Humble Libertarian's brothers and sisters are the Stars of the Sky. The Humble Libertarian's children will become a Great Nation.

What does not kill you makes you stronger. A flood is a baptism. What's a baptism? It's a death and a rebirth. You go down into the water. And rise up out of it again. Whatever you leave in the water drowns. Whatever comes out of the water is born again. When you wake up in the middle of the night and your house is flooding, you have to decide what you're going to save, under pressure, in a very short amount of time, while you and your family are in danger. Like Noah, you get your kids and your animals together and figure out how to get them out of there alive. As you watch water pouring into your house and covering your floor, you get hit hard with a powerful, instant, and totalizing sense of what's important and what isn't. You can't hang on to very much while trying to escape a flood in a hurry, so you have to let go of almost everything. So the flood washes everything away, except what is most important. Because I have taken ...

Seeing your kid's Legos floating in water in their room in the middle of the night is such bullshit, but try telling that to a rainstorm. We are all safe and doing fine! We have plenty of help from family and friends. But early this morning our house was in the middle of a lake, and we had to be pulled out of there by the local volunteer fire department . We both heard gurgling in our HVAC at 12:50am. My wife walked over to the window, froze, and said, "You're not prepared to see what's out there." Water was up above our floor level outside the house, nearly to the bottom of our window, flowing like a river right past our window sill! She was a very quick and clear thinker in the midst of this, and said we should shut down the house's electricity so it doesn't electrocute us. Then quickly gathered all the essentials we would need to save and triple wrapped them in plastic garbage bags. I was good at keeping everyone calm. I think we did very ...

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