So, a few links and addresses. "Helping Hands Across Texas" can't take any more donations of clothes, so some other places to send them are:
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Sep. 10th, 2005
History's Immensity
Sep. 10th, 2005 01:53 pmI keep thinking these days that I'm watching history being made. And not in a good way.
I mean, we're always watching history being made, and making it, and living it. It doesn't stop any more than life does. But for those Americans who haven't written off what's happened as the fault of New Orleans for being there and/or her citizens for being there.... I try not to make absolute statements, nor to overgeneralize, but it seems to me that a significant number of people have experienced changes in their mental images of the country we live in, their government at several levels, their fellow citizens. I know I have.
And I can't stop wondering what this will look like to Joshlet when he studies it, to children yet unborn, to people a century from now.
I wanted to write a long, thoughtful entry full of links, but really, this whole situation is just overwhelming.
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OK. Now that I've got all that off my mind, Tigerlily sent me some job listings, and after a reminder this morning that I need to make more money, I have no excuse to not make myself apply. So, off to do that.
I mean, we're always watching history being made, and making it, and living it. It doesn't stop any more than life does. But for those Americans who haven't written off what's happened as the fault of New Orleans for being there and/or her citizens for being there.... I try not to make absolute statements, nor to overgeneralize, but it seems to me that a significant number of people have experienced changes in their mental images of the country we live in, their government at several levels, their fellow citizens. I know I have.
And I can't stop wondering what this will look like to Joshlet when he studies it, to children yet unborn, to people a century from now.
I wanted to write a long, thoughtful entry full of links, but really, this whole situation is just overwhelming.
OK. Now that I've got all that off my mind, Tigerlily sent me some job listings, and after a reminder this morning that I need to make more money, I have no excuse to not make myself apply. So, off to do that.