Life and Island Times July 31 2016 – Renaissance

This one is from 2014.

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A second chance at life was a long shot for Marlow a year ago. He was becoming weaker and thinner from serious, serial infections. In between courses of powerful antibiotics the preceding six months, he was set on drinking himself to death, courtesy of Makers Mark.

His eyes were wide shut, and he was barely making it through the day. He watched unseeing the world outside one late spring night from the condo balcony, when he saw a cold blue-white comet’s light flash by making the man in the moon disappear. He waved in response.

Sometimes a second chance means saying goodbye. It was on that darkened balcony when he did just that. No more running in place; no more doing the same thing and expecting different results. Unafraid of what he had to say, he knew it had to be in his one and only voice. They would listen closely. It would take just a single day.

A year later, last Saturday to be exact, he and the GF/F moved into a newly purchased house. Two days earlier when they closed on the house, a five hour torrential downpour sealed the deal on his second chance at life when it drenched their island with seven inches of rain. It made the island nearly impassable. All they could think of was the old nursery rhyme

Rain rain go away

Please don’t come on Saturday

Come again Monday

Please don’t stop our moving day

After the 3 PM closing, they barged their way around town to turn the utilities on. Upon exiting their final stop at the Keys Aqueduct Authority (no pun intended), they found the skies had turned blue and the streets were dry. Marlow felt reborn.

Got rain? Island scenes from the May 2nd rainstorm

Second chances are nothing to sniff at. So the GF/F and Marlow married each other the next Saturday amongst a forest of cardboard boxes. A Parisian honeymoon awaited.

Celebrating their marriage at the Casa Marina’s Oceanside fire pit

Meanwhile, that year’s hurricane season would begin June 1st. One weather wise guy constructed this prediction for 2013.

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