Sadness...
The meaning of life truly escapes me when I see all the devastation down in New Orleans/Mississippi. I am saddened beyond measure by some of the images and stories I am hearing.
It's like being in collective shock and not knowing what to do or where to turn just to talk or to cry about what's happened. I am putting together a story about MY experiences in New Orleans - but it's seems rather calloused of me to be writing about an adventure when people are dying, so for now I won't finish...actually I won't post it - I'll still work on it...it doesn't help much...
I do want to say this - that the 'glitzy-Hollywood-beautiful-people-rock-star-people' (you know who you are - people like Madonna, Matt Damon, Sting, Bono and his majesty Bob Geldoff) you guys had all better put your heads together and put on a telethon for this one. Ya think? Oh yeah and perhaps it's time the 'rest of the world' stepped up to the plate here too. Every time there's a disaster somewhere in the world, people in the good ole' US of A put their hard-earned money towards things like charity and the Red Cross - well guess what - my grandmother use to say 'charity begins at home' and you know what - she was right. So all of you countries out there who looked to us for support, or money - I guess we suck when it comes to policing the world, right? But you damn well want our troops and our money and our power on your side when you're in trouble?? Time to pay the piper kids. Pitch in and help - it's why we're called Allies (at least *I* think it is).
Help everyone - do what you can. You can go here to start. Oh and it's not just to donate to the hurricane victims it's a network for helping all over the globe - check it out. The people down in the South (USA) need our help right now...a very poor man said to me today 'If everyone just gave $5..' so if you can spare it - please I am begging you - help.
It's like being in collective shock and not knowing what to do or where to turn just to talk or to cry about what's happened. I am putting together a story about MY experiences in New Orleans - but it's seems rather calloused of me to be writing about an adventure when people are dying, so for now I won't finish...actually I won't post it - I'll still work on it...it doesn't help much...
I do want to say this - that the 'glitzy-Hollywood-beautiful-people-rock-star-people' (you know who you are - people like Madonna, Matt Damon, Sting, Bono and his majesty Bob Geldoff) you guys had all better put your heads together and put on a telethon for this one. Ya think? Oh yeah and perhaps it's time the 'rest of the world' stepped up to the plate here too. Every time there's a disaster somewhere in the world, people in the good ole' US of A put their hard-earned money towards things like charity and the Red Cross - well guess what - my grandmother use to say 'charity begins at home' and you know what - she was right. So all of you countries out there who looked to us for support, or money - I guess we suck when it comes to policing the world, right? But you damn well want our troops and our money and our power on your side when you're in trouble?? Time to pay the piper kids. Pitch in and help - it's why we're called Allies (at least *I* think it is).
Help everyone - do what you can. You can go here to start. Oh and it's not just to donate to the hurricane victims it's a network for helping all over the globe - check it out. The people down in the South (USA) need our help right now...a very poor man said to me today 'If everyone just gave $5..' so if you can spare it - please I am begging you - help.
posted by Colette at 9:25 PM
1 Comments:
natural disasters are something we can prepare for. unfortunately in this case, we can only learn the heard way ..
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