Hurricane Katrina
I haven’t written much in here lately. It’s because the magnatude of Hurricane Katrina sunk in. It’s made me depressed and angry in turns. I’ve had to moderate political arguments about it and that always drains me.
For my part, I was lucky enough to visit New Orleans last year. It was mainly a business trip but I still got to go around and got shown some places by some folks who were living there (they moved out a few months ago). I saw the pictures on TV and the internet and I thought to myself, I walked there. I remember all the poor homes I saw. They were poor then, what will they be now?
I donated to the Red Cross and I’m trying to think of a design to give to the Cafepress section in which they will donate their share to an organization as well. But I can’t seem to do it.
I’ve been staying busy with my stores, working away diligently partly as an escape from the news and the political squabblings. My thoughts have never left that area though. It’s heartbreaking to see what folks are going through and then to see people’s ignorant comments about the situation. I hate ignorance. I hate that there is current in some places that seems to be proud of being ignorant and to put down education. That almost depresses me as much as the devastation.
At any rate, I most likely won’t be posting about this again, but it won’t be because it’s not on my mind but because I’ll be in “defensive busy mode” to compensate for the depression.
