what's to say in your blog when there is such a national tragedy?
what's to say in real life when there is such a national tragedy?
i've found my foot in my mouth on more than one occasion, but only realizing it later. thinking i have an opinion only to realize, who am i to have an opinion on this? it is so sad. fingers are pointing in all kinds of directions. i think people (leaders) need to be held accountable, but first people need to be helped. (see -- i only have the most obvious things to write.)
how can i help? i'm 3,000 miles away. i guess all you can do (here) is sending money. you could donate blood, too.
other things i want to say but they sound arrogant, uninformed, and preachy:
to have compassion -- real compassion -- for the people who are suffering so much;
to have compassion for the reasons they were left in new orleans; while there is no blanket reason for everyone, most were left behind because of poverty. i hope this opens middle-class america's eyes that real poverty exists on a huge scale. sometimes i think we think it doesn't really exist; that it's not that bad; that people choose to be poor. hopefully we will understand more about poverty and want to help these people and communities.
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this photo is from one of my favorite flickr peeps, publicenergy. he lives in nottinghamshire in the UK.
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