javacat

I'm not one to fixate on news. I accept it as part of life, absorb it to be informed, and move on because there's usually not much of an impact I can have on it or it on me -- the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and what it's done to thousands of lives has my head spinning. How does something so awful happen to so many good people. It reminds me in the most obvious way of the tsunami tragedy late last year. In another way, it's not unlike the 9-11 events. The violence is senseless, undeserved and unrestrained. It shows once again that this is a small, fragile world and it doesn't matter if you're a stock broker in NYC, a tourist in Indonesia or a parent/bartender/Little League coach in New Orleans, we are all vulnerable and -- more than we know -- all in need of one another's support.