Friends -
I’m just taking a moment to implore your help in assisting our brothers and sisters in Southern Asia, who have been so ravaged by the tsunami that struck earlier this week. Not only do we need to extend what physical support we can, but our mental attention as well.
Too often this sort of event becomes just another story in our news, with plenty of coverage at the outset, only to fall to the wayside within a matter of days or weeks. We allow the safe packaging of the media to shape our perceptions of what was the last day tens (or possible hundreds) of thousands of ordinary people will ever see into something that happened to “those people”. In this round world, there can be no such thing as “those people” - we’re all part of this thing called human existence. Please keep that part of the family in mind.
Please contact your nearest chapter of the Red Cross as soon as possible and donate what aid you can. Here is a chance for us to offset the image that has been fostered of selfish, bellicose Americans. Let’s seize that opportunity, not only for the sake of redress, but for the sake of doing what is genuinely right.