There is no obvious starting place with disaster. It’s an abstract term, like chaos or mayhem or anguish. Or joy, for that matter. Why mention joy on that list? Because disaster, mayhem, chaos and anguish exist along a spectrum of pathways of life experience. And the signposts along that pathway, signs that show both directions, are sponsored by joy. On an imaginary scale of those pathways are found a gradation of emotions that we feel in a day. Words indicating one end of this scale would be joy, happiness, comfort, home, family, love, security, health, wisdom, understanding, patience, and caring. Toward the other end of this scale are disaster words like chaos, mayhem, anguish, harm, uncertainty, fear, trauma, upheaval. If perhaps the everyday nature of […]