Serious throughts for a Sunday Morning...
I, like many of us, have been thinking a lot about Hurricane Katrina and what it must be like for those people who have lost everything and, in some cases, everybody that is dear to them. The most frustrating thing, watching the news, is the lack of help that these people are being given. Someone pointed out that, in Florida, nobody was sitting on their roof for a week, and gee, I wonder why that is? Who's the governor of Florida again? Also, would the situation be different if the majority of victims were white and not black?
I read an article (in the Post, I think...) about a fundraising campaign to save the pets of the evacuees, which, if I remember correctly, had raised more money than the Clinton-Bush campaign. The discrepancy between the humanity of those who would not abandon their dogs and cats even if it meant they could die and the absolute lack of human response from the government is tragic. I get the feeling, in this situation and many others, that politics is only about spin, and there's very little human feeling or decency behind the cameras.
On top of this sadness, I feel pretty helpless, and I'm sure a lot of us do. I have $12 in the bank--I can't donate money. Other than thinking sympathetic thoughts, what can I do? My friend Diane actually had a great idea, which was that Habitat for Humanity would most likely need many, many volunteers to help rebuild these cities. That's an organization that I've been wanting to connect with for a while, and this seems like the perfect opportunity.
I just looked at the date and felt the significance of it.
I read an article (in the Post, I think...) about a fundraising campaign to save the pets of the evacuees, which, if I remember correctly, had raised more money than the Clinton-Bush campaign. The discrepancy between the humanity of those who would not abandon their dogs and cats even if it meant they could die and the absolute lack of human response from the government is tragic. I get the feeling, in this situation and many others, that politics is only about spin, and there's very little human feeling or decency behind the cameras.
On top of this sadness, I feel pretty helpless, and I'm sure a lot of us do. I have $12 in the bank--I can't donate money. Other than thinking sympathetic thoughts, what can I do? My friend Diane actually had a great idea, which was that Habitat for Humanity would most likely need many, many volunteers to help rebuild these cities. That's an organization that I've been wanting to connect with for a while, and this seems like the perfect opportunity.
I just looked at the date and felt the significance of it.