heartache for haiti

today i have been engulfed in a sadness that i can't quite explain. i do what i can; send a bit of money to oxfam, gather as much information as i can, light candles for those & their families who are suffering. but what i think is, i am not strong enough to be an adult yet. these things that continue to happen that seem shockingly surreal and unbearable; 9/11, hurricane katrina, darfur, the war in iraq.....i could fill pages of disasters that have passed, disasters that continue and disasters that will continue to come our way as a human race. and yet as humans we are also incredibly resilient but i admit that as i grow more in to my adult self, the more i want to retreat to the arms of my parents. to a world that was peaceful and these awful catastropes simply did not exist.

tonight i hold the people of haiti in my heart and my mind-- sending prayers and thoughts for the haitians, our fellow humans, to quickly see the end of this nightmare. may the world quickly come to their rescue.