Haiti
I am familiar with natural disasters yet I am not. Growing up in Houston, Texas and having relatives in Louisiana puts one in the path of a hurricane every now and then. They are scary events. Lives are turned upside down. Yet we move on.
Haiti is a developing country at best. Its infrastructure is limited and the resources it has to draw upon following this earthquake are generally not its own. Haiti and all of its people will rely on the kindness of strangers to help them make it through this round of problems.
I am torn throughout the day in trying to keep going on with my everyday life and trying to figure out what I can do for the people in Haiti. I have settled on a two-step process. For one, as my thoughts turn to the challenges facing the people in Haiti each hour, I stop and send positive thoughts, prayers and love to them. Then I go back to doing what I need to do. I do not want to be indifferent to their plight, but I also cannot be crippled by it.
Second, we are giving a small amount of money to a friend who is personally going to Haiti to try and find his girlfriend, my friend Chrystel. She is in Haiti to help the Haitians look into developing tourism as a market for their development as a nation. She has worked throughout the world on projects such as these. Eric will go to Haiti to find her and I am sure will help the Haitian people in the process.
I think that each of us has to find a way to deal with the troubles we are faced with each day. It is far easier to do so in a calm and rationale manner than to do so from a position of personal chaos. My hope is that each of you has or will do something yourself to send assistance to the people in Haiti. Assistance in the form of cash, positive thoughts, prayers or love - it doesn't matter. Whatever works for you.
While this post has nothing to do with Tranquilo Bay, it makes me stop and wonder how we would deal with a disaster of this magnitude here. And I hope we would be able to step back, take a deep breath, and move forward in a deliberate manner.
Haiti is a developing country at best. Its infrastructure is limited and the resources it has to draw upon following this earthquake are generally not its own. Haiti and all of its people will rely on the kindness of strangers to help them make it through this round of problems.
I am torn throughout the day in trying to keep going on with my everyday life and trying to figure out what I can do for the people in Haiti. I have settled on a two-step process. For one, as my thoughts turn to the challenges facing the people in Haiti each hour, I stop and send positive thoughts, prayers and love to them. Then I go back to doing what I need to do. I do not want to be indifferent to their plight, but I also cannot be crippled by it.
Second, we are giving a small amount of money to a friend who is personally going to Haiti to try and find his girlfriend, my friend Chrystel. She is in Haiti to help the Haitians look into developing tourism as a market for their development as a nation. She has worked throughout the world on projects such as these. Eric will go to Haiti to find her and I am sure will help the Haitian people in the process.
I think that each of us has to find a way to deal with the troubles we are faced with each day. It is far easier to do so in a calm and rationale manner than to do so from a position of personal chaos. My hope is that each of you has or will do something yourself to send assistance to the people in Haiti. Assistance in the form of cash, positive thoughts, prayers or love - it doesn't matter. Whatever works for you.
While this post has nothing to do with Tranquilo Bay, it makes me stop and wonder how we would deal with a disaster of this magnitude here. And I hope we would be able to step back, take a deep breath, and move forward in a deliberate manner.
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posted by R Kimball at
11:15 AM
1 Comments:
I have to disagree. The post DOES have something to do with Tranquilo Bay. It has touched you in your everyday life as you go about your business of living. And it has touched you personally in the form of your friend Chrystel being there. We are more connected to each other in this world than most of us realize...
John Donne summed it up in 1624 with the well known phrase "Do not ask for whom the Bell Tolls," and recently (as maudlin as it sounds) by Solomon Burke singing "None of us are free, if one of us are chained,none of us are free."
All the best for your friend's plight.
Richard (Frank Hilson's friend)
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