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[mynewplace]

Happy New Year!

 

To end - a quote which sums things up for me quite nicely.

 

 I cannot express my astonishment at the life that happened to us while we were making other plans.
~Pavanne LeJeune Pettigrew, 2004

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Email is sent my dear. I used the email address in your user info so I hope that is OK.
Believe helping out with the relief effort is nothing. It was right on our doorstep. A kid down the road died, on holiday with his parents. The death toll will easily get to 200,000. We are a rich country close by with money and resources we should be doing all this stuff.
I'm sad about my house and bike but these things can be replaced

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

Oh, its far from nothing. Doing what you 'should' do still qualifies you as an awesome guy, since there are so many who don't bother. Hearing that even someone I know as casually as you is not only trying to make things better, but is aquainted with someone who has been affected so tragically by this really brings it home.

(Don't remember you having a bike. Am hoping you're talking mountain bike.)

[(Anonymous)]

I HAD a mountain bike and a motorbike. They are both mangled remains now.
Quite a few Aussies have died and about 1000 are still unaccounted for.
I know some med students on holiday in Thailand who are now working at the morgue identifing bodies. You do what you can.

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

The heroicism of the everyday man, when faced with unspeakable tragedy, lies in his willingness to wade into the muck unflinchingly, dig elbow-deep for whatever might lie buried, and blush at the admiration of those who are unable to do so. *kisskisskiss*