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April 18, 2007
on current events
It is a nasty, cold, rainy day. Hail fell. I followed the news. Thirty-three dead at Virginia Tech. I almost went there. People I know did go there, neighbors and family and friends. In Iowa, a Grinnell College student who went missing six months ago was found dead, under the tarp of a swimming pool that was covered two weeks before he disappeared; suicide. In Iraq, a single bomb killed 120 people, 50,000 people leave the country every month, and 40,000 children have entered orphanages since the war began. It's genocide awareness week, but everyone's too distracted by death to notice.
A few blessings: life, books, friends, cats, family, hail, jazz, pizza, movies, newspapers, language, Portland, thought, love, volcanoes, caves, snow, sun, bodies, materialism, Buddhism, diversity, wine, warmth, color, ambition, community, humanity, weakness, trees, the Internet, empathy and magic.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at April 18, 2007 06:08 PM