We've seen Compassion, Heroism, Courage & every kind of Magnificence come home to bloom!
All this week in the U.S. we are re*membering the hurricane and resulting tragedies that befell our Gulf Coast region one year ago. Many are focusing on the great pain people suffered and the unconscionable spiritual poverty in our government's failures to respond appropriately.
These realities are worthy of our attention and I believe we owe it to ourselves and to the celebratory, all welcoming embrace that was New Orleans, to celebrate the still flowing spirit of worldwide compassion that's compelled Magnificent people everywhere to donate, volunteer, open their homes and give jobs to the survivors of this as yet, continuing tragedy.
People say "home iz where the heart iz". If our hearts are spiritual as well as physical organs, then there's no limit to how much they can hold nor any restrictions on where they call home.
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some equal billing among all the doom & gloom news, for the triumph
of everyday Magnificence!
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One year ago this week I was physically sick and e*motionally on edge. I have a niece & nephew (twins) only a month older than my son, who live in Hammond, LA; just north of New Orleans.
There was no way to contact or see about them for almost a week. So I held them in the Light of the Highest possible Good...not sure how 'high' possible was in this case.
Miraculously, Hammond turned out to be an oasis of safety & functionality. They lost power for a few days, but within a week all the services were restored and the streets were being cleared for normal traffic again! It turns out Hammond iz where all the news & relief crews landed to get in & out of New Orleans!
When we spoke to the children & their mother, instead of tales of desperation or violence, they told us how they'd joined with many of their neighbors to barbecue up the contents of their freezers and share their food before it went bad.
They weathered the storm as a community. And while still needing to repair their own homes, many joined the volunteer crews that landed in their town to help those in greater need.
Whenever I think of the hurricane & aftermath, I think of those people comming together for one another in Hammond, and I re*member that scenes like that were and still are happening all over our country & world!
Posted by: Nut Tmu-Ankh Butterfly Dreaming | August 30, 2006 at 08:43 PM