Responsibility...

A very interesting audio:

Click here to view and listen to the audio...

Take care!

Breath...relax and just breath...

Grab a dart, a blind fold and a map...if you don't have time for all of that just pick a state any state and I bet you will find Katrine refugees.

Ok, what was it about Katrina? Really, was it the slow motion, play-by-play that hooked the nation. What was it?

As each news clip and media post played out, the "lack of support" was displayed in a bold flashing neon fashion and to who's benefit?

Today, it is difficult to look around without finding someone who is helping or supporting in the Katrina cause.

Is the media way to hungry for that certain tidbit of news, you know, the tidbit that is dipped in emotion, battered with just the right amount of seemingly wrong doing, and seasoned with the perfect blend of polarizing treats; race, poverty, uneducated, uncaring just to name a few.

Well, is the media to hungry or not? Maybe not. Who is it that has told the media that they enjoy just such a diet. A diet filled with artery clogging stess, and ulcer churning emotion.

Well, my guess, the people that are so eagerly watching every little healthy and overwhelmingly unhealthy tidbit.

Time, it doesn't stop, and people don't just give up.

With each disaster we get to see the best of humanity. THE VERY BEST!

A natural trajedy for sure, and an opportunity that will play out for months and maybe years to come.

Take care.

Katrina blogs...

While scanning and reading blogs I came across the following links.

Katrina Thoughts:

http://globaloctopus.blogspot.com/

http://futuredaddy.blogspot.com/

http://verbatimwordforword.blogspot.com/


A day by day diary of ones experience with Katrina.

Katrina Diaries:

http://trekkingbob.blogspot.com/

Eat out and help Katrina victims...

The Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon, Inc. will donate 100% of the day's sales this Labor Day, Monday September 5, 2005 to the American Red Cross disaster relief fund for the 2005 hurricanes.


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Go ahead, stuff yourself and change the world...;-)

Tragedy: What is it?

I have chosen two definitions:

1. A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.

2. A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life

As I watched the events of New Orleans and the Superdome unfold I found myself hooked, on so many different levels and at the center of my experience was an overwhelming question:

Why?

Imagine being confined to a such facility with no functioning services, and having to deal with the "unscripted reality" of people living in caos.

What would you have done?

I am torn as I, unusual to my nature, hone in on the news commentary and the many political debates by the tendency of most to focus in on "result," the "outcome" of such an event, even in everyday life.

Also, the truth of what really happened.

Was the huricane a surprise?

No, it wasn't a surprise. These events are tracked and matched against models of probability to eventually provide a reasonable prediction.

If it wasn't a surprise, why such a poor response or was it?

"The 2000 census put New Orleans's population at 484,674 and the population of Greater New Orleans at 1,337,726. The city's name is often abbreviated NOLA."

The focus of the media: The Superdome, and the more than 20,000 refugees.

In my next post I will look at:

The victim?

For now let me close with this thought, clearly the events of hurricane Katrina have been the source of many tragedies. Some man made and others simply mother nature doing what she does.

Take time to appreciate the picture I posted, it says everything about what is good in life.

Over the next, who knows how many days, the rhetoric will begin. I see two pieces of rhetoric unfolding:

1. Who did what, who was responsible for what, and who didn't do what they were suppose to do?

2. The age old issue of race. Did the color of ones skin determine their fate?

This rhetoric is old, and endless, and to date I have yet to recognize a point and time when it really served to change the world.

Does rhetoric really change anything?

How can you make a difference?
Does it even matter to you?






Care enough, reach out, and you will make a difference!