terrshee's Diaryland Diary
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Earthquake
I normally reach consciousness to my alarm clock playing NPR news (after the first alarm goes off with a nasty buzzing noise to actually wake me up). And I normally wait for the seemingly endless news about Iraq. But this morning was the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Dear gods, how does one react to that much death and destruction? I can feel anger and horror when a human power chooses to inflict a catastrophe upon humanity, but when nature acts on such a biblical scale? It is impersonal, and in some way, well, natural. There's no malice or purpose, it just is. And all the souls who get caught in its path suffer and die just the same.
I'm off to make a donation to Red Cross Disaster Relief, but the response seems utterly inadequate.
6:56 a.m. - 2004-12-27
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past tense - always tense - future tense
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