I think (sniffing the air) that it's true here, too!
Like we live in a bell jar and the lid has been lifted for a moment. I hope it will last.
Bush just talked: he gave us website addresses where we could send money.
A bit late--most of us have already been sending money--it's so little to do, and if we lived closer, I know (because we do this all the time for regional disasters, as I'm sure you do, too) we'd be piling blankets and water bottles and canned goods onto trucks.
Last night I saw a woman sitting alone on a Southeast Asia beach, looking out to sea. A commentator said many people sit by the water, waiting for their children to return to them.
I have felt grief in my life, but not like that. I can't even imagine it. Sending money seems so useless, when I wish so much I could put a blanket around that woman and just sit beside her.
We are all, I think, waking up to a sense of family that we had forgotten. As you said.
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Date: 2005-01-03 07:37 am (UTC)Like we live in a bell jar and the lid has been lifted for a moment. I hope it will last.
Bush just talked: he gave us website addresses where we could send money.
A bit late--most of us have already been sending money--it's so little to do, and if we lived closer, I know (because we do this all the time for regional disasters, as I'm sure you do, too) we'd be piling blankets and water bottles and canned goods onto trucks.
Last night I saw a woman sitting alone on a Southeast Asia beach, looking out to sea. A commentator said many people sit by the water, waiting for their children to return to them.
I have felt grief in my life, but not like that. I can't even imagine it. Sending money seems so useless, when I wish so much I could put a blanket around that woman and just sit beside her.
We are all, I think, waking up to a sense of family that we had forgotten. As you said.
It is in the air. If only it will last.