My dad recently posted this on his blog, and I can relate (sorry, pun intended!). Don’t make too much of the tsunami metaphor (besides maybe an eerie foreshadowing) – he wrote this before the tsunami in Japan.
Julia Bloom
veteran amateur singer/songwriter
Julia Bloom 
I finally got to this, his tsunami reference is eerie! But I’m glad you provided the link, he really wrote a fine post. Now we need another from Julia….