Good to have hope, but it'll take a lot more than that to rebuild a shattered country already renowned for its poverty, corruption and shoddy, easy-shattered buildings. They need a political leader with integrity and social conscience.
The pictures of hundreds of corpses just lying there rotting and unidentified are awful.
yes, nick, i agree. hope alone is useless. i wanted to post something about haiti and there are no words, really. i saw the photo and i thought that the survival of a newborn, as this one looks to be, is something special.
Good to have hope, but it'll take a lot more than that to rebuild a shattered country already renowned for its poverty, corruption and shoddy, easy-shattered buildings. They need a political leader with integrity and social conscience.
ReplyDeleteThe pictures of hundreds of corpses just lying there rotting and unidentified are awful.
yes, nick, i agree.
ReplyDeletehope alone is useless.
i wanted to post something about haiti and there are no words, really.
i saw the photo and i thought that the survival of a newborn, as this one looks to be, is something special.
From the maw of destruction a new sense of place may yet emerge in Haiti.
ReplyDeleteI salute the emergency workers who have taken leave from their jobs to volunteer with rescue teams.
ReplyDeletethe quake showed no mercy- even to political leaders- did you see the palace?
I found it especially stirring that while all the political buildings were destroyed, there was an orphanage that was completely untouched.
ReplyDeleteMakes you go, "Hmmm..."