Wednesday, 16 March 2011
On this bleak rainy day in March, I can't help but be grateful for everything that I have. I am constantly drawn to the latest news about the Japan earthquate, the Nuclear reactor situation, watching all those little videos of the Tsunami as it sweeps the cars and homes away like a big hand just sweeping a pile of little Hotwheels and plastic toy homes. But those aren't toys, and the hand sweeping them away is the hand of nature at its fiercest. None of us are immune from this. This could have been my home, my car, my place of work, my life. For all we know - who is to say that we will not one day be faced with a natural disaster of a similar magnitude. Just ask someone from Haiti or New Orleans... What these people are facing is such total devastation - I can only imagine the horrors, but now another threat even worse than everything looms above them. The threat of radiation. I am not religious. I don't do praying. But you know, I might just send a few prayers in the stratosphere tonight for the people of Japan.
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well said Sue. I too have been following the news of the post disasters and radiation nightmare that looms. It is hard to imagine the hardship this is placed on the people, but in true Japanese grit and determination, they will come out of this and thrive again. It certainly does remind us who is really boos here and that the society we have created in really a house of cards. Every so often, it collapses and shows us just how small and weak we are.
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