Reality check
If you are a news junkie like me, your perception can be easily skewed watching the 24 hour news channels' unrelenting images and stories of the aftermath of Katrina.
While there is no question that heads must roll in terms of the lack of foresight, failure to follow established emergency plans, and sheer stupidity, that's not what I'm talking about.
A friend of mine, a cop, said it best: In times of crisis, bad people become worse, but good people become better.
For ever looter stealing TVs, for every well-armed gang pinning down firefighters and hospitals, there are far more citizens, people who have lost everything themselves, out there helping others, in addition to the thousands of volunteers who have flocked to the states devastated by Katrina, working in the shelters, working in search-and-rescue, working to get food and water and clothing distributed, doctors and nurses treating thousands, and rescuers and foster homes taking in and caring for the thousands of displaced pets.
We are resilient in all ways that are good.
That is what we need to remember right now.
That, and helping in any way we can. For me, along with a donation of money, I will also be sending off boxes of books I've collected, science and nature books for early and middle school-aged children. I've been meaning to re-home them, but never got around to it. Now seems the perfect time to get them moving.
While there is no question that heads must roll in terms of the lack of foresight, failure to follow established emergency plans, and sheer stupidity, that's not what I'm talking about.
A friend of mine, a cop, said it best: In times of crisis, bad people become worse, but good people become better.
For ever looter stealing TVs, for every well-armed gang pinning down firefighters and hospitals, there are far more citizens, people who have lost everything themselves, out there helping others, in addition to the thousands of volunteers who have flocked to the states devastated by Katrina, working in the shelters, working in search-and-rescue, working to get food and water and clothing distributed, doctors and nurses treating thousands, and rescuers and foster homes taking in and caring for the thousands of displaced pets.
We are resilient in all ways that are good.
That is what we need to remember right now.
That, and helping in any way we can. For me, along with a donation of money, I will also be sending off boxes of books I've collected, science and nature books for early and middle school-aged children. I've been meaning to re-home them, but never got around to it. Now seems the perfect time to get them moving.
posted by Melissa at 8:00 PM
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