i am a certifiable....

Titanic Fanatic!!!!!

While enduring a long sit

 at Monkey Joes

 a couple of weeks ago,

I was thrilled out of my mind to find this

 National Geographic Magazine

with a cover story about the Titanic.

With children bouncing and yelling all around me,

I quickly became engrossed

in the story about the ship's final moments. 

 I am blessed with the

 inate ability

 to read anywhere and in any situation. 

Noise,

low lights,

automobiles,

the beach,

eating,

walking,

 nothing deters me from getting lost in the written words.

I wrote two quotes to share with you....

"The Titanic,

a vessel with too much pride in her name,

sprinting smartly to a new world,

only to be mortally nicked

by something

 as old and slow as ice."

I just love that quote by author

Hampson Sides

in the article

The Lights are finally On.

and then this question....

What happened to all the people still on board when she sank?

again I quote....

"Most of the 1,496 victims died of

hypothermia

at the surface bobbing in a patch of cork life-perservers.

But hundreds of people

may still have been alive inside ~

most of them immigrant families in steerage class

 looking forward to a new life in America.

How did they,

during their last moments,

 experience the colossal

wrenching and shuddering of metal

as the ship

sank down into the depths

and broke apart?

What would they have heard and felt?

It is,

even a hundred years later,

 to awful

to contemplate."

This still stuns me every time I read it.