“Mourning is not forgetting ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.” Margery Allingham, Writer Today, I decided to step back and look at “the big picture.” As the death tolls from the earthquake and cyclone in China and Myanmar, respectively, surpass a staggering 130,000, the suffering of the survivors in these two nations is unfathomable. To put this into perspective, lives lost from both September 11, 2001 and from Hurricane Katrina in La. combined were less than 5,000, and still the devastating effects of these
Margery Allingham
“Mourning is not forgetting ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.”
Margery Allingham,
Writer
Today, I decided to step back and look at “the big picture.” As the death tolls from the earthquake and cyclone in China and Myanmar, respectively, surpass a staggering 130,000, the suffering of the survivors in these two nations is unfathomable.
To put this into perspective, lives lost from both September 11, 2001 and from Hurricane Katrina in La. combined were less than 5,000, and still the devastating effects of these
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