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Commiseration and candlelight for haiti
So distant from where we live here, the sheer size and catastrophic effects of the tragedy that has struck the troubled nation of Haiti is just plain impossible to digest or know. Hearts stop, tears well, the mind is overwhelmed, uncaring time moves on. There are only moments and stories. We pluck them from our cell phones, our computers, the nightly, daily ticker tape news, and see discarded bodies, a city collapsed and destroyed, the dust-covered faces of miracle survivors, the harsh sunlight of the Caribbean countryside there... [more]
By Gary Tischler
January 2010