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Red Cross.
Humane Society Disaster Relief Fund
Please. If you possibly can. That's all I've got right now. If you've been following the news at all, you know.
My dearest oldest friend in NO is safe -- she and her husband left before it hit, however unwillingly -- but might have lost everything they owned and all their beloved animals they had to leave behind.
My SO is holding down the fort at work by himself (with no complaints whatsoever) because his boss is from NO and can't get in touch with her mother, who stayed.
At the bar after one of his bands' rehearsals tonight he said the "last call" song they played was "When the Levee Breaks" (Led Zep version of course) and he just wasn't sure if it was SO right to hear it now or SO wrong. Definitely not a neutral at any rate, which I guess is always a plus for rock'n'roll.
I'm overwhelmed. I'm trying to send all the energy I can.
quantum_witch, you are the wind beneath my wings right now. That was definitely the brightest light in my day.
Humane Society Disaster Relief Fund
Please. If you possibly can. That's all I've got right now. If you've been following the news at all, you know.
My dearest oldest friend in NO is safe -- she and her husband left before it hit, however unwillingly -- but might have lost everything they owned and all their beloved animals they had to leave behind.
My SO is holding down the fort at work by himself (with no complaints whatsoever) because his boss is from NO and can't get in touch with her mother, who stayed.
At the bar after one of his bands' rehearsals tonight he said the "last call" song they played was "When the Levee Breaks" (Led Zep version of course) and he just wasn't sure if it was SO right to hear it now or SO wrong. Definitely not a neutral at any rate, which I guess is always a plus for rock'n'roll.
I'm overwhelmed. I'm trying to send all the energy I can.
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Date: 2005-08-31 08:28 am (UTC)Funnily enough, I'm awake right this minute (just after 3AM) having had dreams of too much water. I have family down South, some in Mississippi, and haven't heard whether they're all right or not. They're poor enough as it is, and losing anything would be devastating for them.
On the subject of Katrina... Something this huge... well it sort of gets into collective unconsciousness until things settle down, and prevents restfulness. I remember waking up very early on the morning of the Indonesian tsunami also. Natural disasters shake me so deeply.
*(current or not)
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Date: 2005-08-31 08:33 am (UTC)I hope your relatives are OK. (That sounds so lame, I can't be more profound right now. I really, really, really hope they're OK). Are they on the coast?
I did that around the tsunami too. And the heat wave in France. And 9/11.
They say it's a curse to live in "interesting times," but really, who doesn't?
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Date: 2005-08-31 08:39 am (UTC)I just got home from work about half an hour ago...I guess that's a factor too. :)
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Date: 2005-08-31 08:44 am (UTC)I think natural disasters affect me worst of all. Something to do with being so closely connected to nature (esp. through my goddess)... I didn't sleep well for the entire month of July due to the severity of the drought, either. *Sigh* Sometimes I'd like to be just a boring old "normal" person.
Not really :P
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Date: 2005-08-31 09:08 am (UTC)One of my best friends from when I was a teenager is a little older than me and was a military kid: lived through Camille in Biloxi (barely) as a young child and has pretty intense memories of that still. He sent around a once-in-a-blue-moon email hitting up the whole mailing list for the Red Cross. I can't imagine what he's thinking right now.
The drought was bad...still is. I wish we had a third of that rainwater: take it off those folks' hands and put it where it's needed.
9/11 was bad for me because I've lived in NYC and still have a lot of friends there, several of whom were waaaaayyy too close for comfort that morning. (That one was too close: that one I did put my ass on an Amtrak for as soon as I knew there was an infrastructure for not-highly-skilled volunteers to pitch in with, which doesn't seem to be the case here yet.)
I was prematurely Croney as a baby witch (though it's just less premature now). When so many cross over at once (we're not even close to knowing the magnitude of how many here), it's just hard. I don't know how anyone on this land mass can be calm when that's going on. Even though I don't think death is bad in and of itself, it's not easy.
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Date: 2005-08-31 09:17 am (UTC)I still can't think deeply about 9/11 without headaches. I only remember feeling as though I needed to quote Obi Wan Kenobi at that time, re: voices sceaming out and being silenced.
Hah, oh yes, the Crone. Dear me. I've been a Crone for most of my adult life. It's the white streaks coming in since teen years. And of course the absence of fertility and so on. Having a death god just enhances that.
No, death isn't easy, it's not meant to be. It's meant to shake one into realising "I could die anytime" and making them really LIVE.
Of course, everyone must LIVE differently. I live by creating things and letting my Muses have their wicked way with me. If I continued to keep that bottled up, I'd be less alive.
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Date: 2005-08-31 12:37 pm (UTC)I think the true depth of this catastrophe still hasn't sunk into most people's consciousness yet. This is shaping up to be the equivalent of San Francisco in 1906, at least in terms of property damage. Sadly, New Orleans will never be the same.
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Date: 2005-08-31 10:32 pm (UTC)Well, Chicago was completely destroyed once too. Do we have that kind of energy and commitment to public works nowadays, though, or will it be "every man for themselves and the poor -- too bad"?
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Date: 2005-08-31 10:35 pm (UTC)The Humane Society is in there with rescue efforts, doing what they can for all the animals...it's so overwhelming, though.
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Date: 2005-08-31 04:31 pm (UTC)http://www.illwillpress.com/
Foamy's got it right, eh?
Oh and Winston has been playing that song too.
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Date: 2005-08-31 10:40 pm (UTC)