RED FLAG

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. —Saint Catherine of Siena

You can be a healing presence today in someone's life. —Venerable Mary Potter LCM

We are consciously choosing to shape the future, rather than allowing the future to shape us. —Sr. Sheila Lemieux CSJP

We all work, but it is the spirit in which we work for which we will be rewarded. —Venerable Mary Potter LCM

Prayer is communing with God with my whole being. —Sr. Andrea Nenzel CSJP

We are beginning a new order. We want brave, noble, large-minded, courageous souls. —Mother Frances Clare CSJP

On the path of life, you have been chosen to make the difference!  —Sr. Aileen Trainor CSJP

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. —Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Let us never forget that ........ exists to serve the community. —Sr. Monica Heeran CSJP

It is most important to inspire the young with a great love of peace. —Mother Frances Clare CSJP

Where are we headed today?

I’ll walk from here, I say. Thanks for the ride.

How will you get back? Megan asks.

Back to where?

Galway. Your life. Isn't that where it is?

I don't know the answer to that. I had thought my life was just here, with me.

— Charlotte McConaghy, in Migrations (A Novel, 2020)

NOTES
— Slap Tags courtesy LiFE and others, Unofficial Art in Public Placements. Eugene, Oregon, April-August 2022. Copyrights accrue to the artists, noting street artwork is ever fleeting, ephemeral, melting to extinction.  Red Flag Warning.

Photos by Douglas Beauchamp, assuming creative intervention to interpret and present. 

— Captions courtesy the “We are the Legacy” walkway on the grounds of Riverbend Medical Center, Springfield, Oregon. (BELOW, an example)

— Personal Note. This writer had the good fortune during a singular season to room in Siena (Tuscany) Italy in the convent (Santuario S.Caterina Alma Domus) associated with former family home of the woman who would become the prescient Saint Catherine of Siena: …and you will set the world on fire.

CODA

A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now....or will shortly.

RED FLAG:  When used metaphorically, the phrase can be used to denote a critical turning point when a situation becomes urgent.

LIFE:  When used metaphorically, the phrase can be used to denote a critical turning point when a situation becomes (.......)