fried chicken and Alabama tornadoes

At first glance, fried chicken and Alabama tornadoes have absolutely nothing in common. After a deeper look; however, you might understand that to me, one has everything to do with the other. Last week, a series of tornadoes devastated the southern states. Alabama was hit the hardest and the death toll is still rising. As we watched the footage, I couldn’t help but think that this begs a question. How do we recover? The answer that kept popping into my head was: we go home. Not home in the sense of a house or town. I mean home as a feeling.  For some, this means picking up the pieces in Pratt City. For some, it means taking a class to be a certified responder. For others, it means taking trucks of supplies to Tuscaloosa. To all of us, this means helping. It means believing that we are a part of something greater than ourselves. And it also means that when the dust settles, we are still proud. We are still believers. And we still like our chicken fried…