Sunday, February 28, 2010
The Fragility of Life and the Power of Nature
My heart goes out to the Chilean people. How tragic it was to read of the man who sat sobbing in the rubble of what used to be a café while stroking the hand of the dead woman next to him. Was she his wife? Lover? Mother? Maybe they were merely strangers brought intimately together by a powerful force neither of them truly understood. There are many thousands of people in similar circumstances tonight. I hope, though we Americans currently have our own struggles, we can find a way to reach out once more to a people so clearly in need.
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We do fool ourselves that it's all about us humans, don't we? When the universe was here for millions of millenia before we appeared, and no doubt will continue when we're gone.
ReplyDeleteOn a more individual level, it's also easy to believe the hardships of others are not ours. Easy but incorrect. Watch what happens when you drop one drop of water in a pond.