The Real Thing

[mamculuna]

I was thinking about the differences in how we perceive natural disasters as opposed to man-made ones. A terrorist act like 9/11, etc., is set up for maximum public exposure--the images that appear on TV and online all over the world are the real point. Since we get those images so clearly and so immediately, the event seems real to us. But the natural disasters aren't set up that way. The news leaks out, a little at a time. No one was filming the waves that hit during the Tsunami, and only now are we beginning to get some visual images that make it seem real to us.

But it is real. This is a site about one refugee camp before the disaster and the people who lived there. It makes it real to me:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ceret/52383.html

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[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I read in the paper today that one of the First Nations bands here are donating $2000.00 that was designated for repairing flood damage to their town, to the people in S.E. Asia. They said that those people needed it more than their town did.

That is truly generous--for people who have their own problems to see that someone else's are worse. And good for you as a Foster Parent.