Dorothea has expected to be carried away on a flood of feeling, and is reduced to floods of tears.
Several times, their eyes accidentally met, and then there poured into hers such a flood of feeling as she had never before experienced.
"That's due to such an overwhelming flood of feeling in the party at the moment that we've got to trim our differences and do whatever is necessary to beat Bush," said Don Fowler, a South Carolina lawyer and former national Democratic Party chairman who was among those listening in the audience.
A flood of feelings that have been hammering at the door of "Well" for the previous 90 minutes break in to seize unconditional power.
Toddler tantrums might provoke an answering anger in a mother or father, but it will be quickly replaced by the understanding that a little person does not yet have the language to express the flood of feelings contained in his or her body.
I admire those who heal quickly, allowing emotion to flow out as easily as the flood of feelings flows in.
"Just that the city comes together for this," she said at the finish line, explaining the flood of feelings that came over her from her first steps.
Huckleberry seized my hand, clasping it so tight he brought back in a quick flood of feelings those years with the Widow Watson, and whispered as if he wanted only me and not his friend to hear, "You take care of yourself, Jim, and keep out of all that trouble, please, cause this world is about ready to break wide open, and I sure don't want to see you get swallowed up".
Or open your car door and feel a flood of overwhelmed feelings, because your car is packed with old coffee cups, last week's newspapers and the unused yoga mat?
For young children, the flood of prickly feelings and questions often arises just as the surviving parent is moving beyond his or her own intense grief, sometimes with a new spouse or partner in the picture.
Our twin daughters were born Monday, June 2 at 8 46 and 8 47 p.m. Around midnight, they were transported from Shawnee Mission Medical Center to Children's Mercy Hospital (CMH), where they are set up to handle pre-28 weekers, while Julie and I dealt with a flooding barrage of feelings ranging from excitement to anxiety to fear.
