Mommy Dearest

We think we're so smart. We think we're so powerful. We think we're so important.

And then, every once in a while, Mother Nature decides we need a reminder. Sometimes, she just taps us on the shoulder and clears her throat.

But sometimes, it's a big ol' whop upside the head that leaves us seeing stars and looking for our teeth.


Yes, there were a lot of people who could have and should have left the gulf states when Katrina headed toward them. And why they didn't, those of us at a distance may never understand.

But there were many, many, many who could not. The children, the aged, the poor, the sick, and those who stayed to look after them.

And now, as we sit in our intact, air-conditioned homes, with our full refrigerators, and bitch about what this is doing to the price of gasoline, they are living on rooftops. Pushing through water you and I would be afraid to step into in a hazmat suit. Living with dead bodies, no food, no water, no sanitation. In a city that was once a jewel of the South.

http://www.redcross.org

Please.