Exploring, praying, watching

Arrrgh to tblog! I did a wonderful post and it got eaten up by blogging gremlins!!
We have done a little exploring by going for a drive yesterday, as much to escape the CNN coverage of the disaster as to explore a bit more. We drove west and came to a lovely area full of farm markets, roadside vegetable  stands and came home with a veritable plethora of fresh vegetables, eggs from the farm and a fresh air appetite.
Today I watch and weep at the destruction going on down in the Gulf coast. I want to go and help out, but can't for the time being. ( Just moved, kids start school on Wed. MrNurse going on a business trip etc.) I'm hoping to have my visa and credentials organized before too long so that I can go back to work. I have been offered a job if and when all the paperwork gets processed. Our budget needs me to contribute as life is expensive. I spoke to my daughter in Hamden yesterday. She's been back to class since Aug. 29 and is busy with her dance company and her activities. Her dorm is putting on a fund raiser for Katrina victims, so sounds busy and happy.

We as a family have made a donation to the Red Cross and have included the victims in our family prayers. God knows they need them. The one thing I noted, however, in all the mess at the New Orleans convention centre, could the people not have organized a garbage locale? why all the crap everywhere?

Latrine areas should have been organized as well as garbage areas. Why they sat in filth for so many days is beyond me. Even in such a desperate situation you would think that someone would take the lead? But, then again, I have never been in a traumatic situation like that so don't know what it was like. I do know the images of the corpses in the water will haunt me for a long time.