On NBC either tonight or sometime this week there's a music collaborative to gather funds for our brothers and sisters in New Orleans and the surrounding areas.
I think the theme song should be Green Day's 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'...bittersweet and current enough to carry the week out while watching CNN/FOX.
...which I've turned off for now. I can't watch it anymore. Is there any good news in this tragedy? It feels like when I read my first Greek tragedy - that hollowed out feeling as you read more and more and see the characters go further and further down the wrong path. The big difference here is that in reading something you can put the book down and calm down a bit knowing that it's 'only a story contained in a book'. What we're seeing and reading in the papers today on day four of this mess isn't a story, it's way too real and that's painful. Even if you're not connected to someone over there. You're a human being, it hurts, you are connected.
Today CNN showed a woman with her little baby, couldn't have been more than 6 months old (maybe?) and the little guy was flopping around like a rag doll. The mother was crying that it was getting harder and harder to wake him up.
I swear, my whole body froze when she said that. Forever in my heart, mind and soul will I see this little baby flopping around almost lifeless in the richest country in the world on day FOUR of this disaster.
One of my favorite singers, Harry Connick, Jr. who has big ties (and family) in the Big Easy area went back to see what happened and boy, was he not thrilled. People laying around in the streets who may or may not be asleep (possibly dead), lack of control and food, water, help - it's all there and it's gotta stop.
If you watch the concert tonight, donate something, anything to help these people. It's a bit late, but they need it and will need it for a long time.
Maybe for Christmas and Thanksgiving this year we should have a collection with our immediate families instead of buying lavish, un-needed gifts - that way we can do something, give something, help those in need and maintain the spirit of the holidays ahead.
Just a thought.
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