After good nights sleep in my own bed – I am back.
It is obvious that everything we experience changes our perspectives and how we perceive and interpret our existence on this globe we call earth. My vacation to visit my friends in Mississippi is on my list of altering experiences. I left with wonderful memories of a exciting visit with my friends, tours of Stennis, Fredericksburg, and New Orleans. I reveled in the excitement of seeing the U.S.S. Cairo in person and played with the displays at the NASA exhibits. I also came home moved deeply by the enormity of the hurricane damage.
The sheer size of it all, miles upon miles, it seemed to never end. All the lives affected. It has left me with many, many questions and frankly just stunned that after eight months the clean up efforts, well, heck, in our country, my county, it almost seems that we have just turned our backs on them. I have hundreds of pictures taken around the area. Hardly a shot does not have a trailer or tent in it. Homes from both sides of the tracks demolished, trees downed, it just goes on and on as if it would never end.
Blogging about political rhetoric seems so pointless right now. Irrelevant. To be polite I am pissed and impressed. Pissed at my country and it’s lack of compassion and at the same time impressed with the spirit of the people in Bay St. Louis and the private groups of citizens that have shown up to help in the area. I need some time to sort it all out.
Keep posting about it because especially Mississippi got lost in all of the bluster. Your photo that you posted from vacation was chilling.
I’m pissed too, because I know from experience that just about anywhere else would’ve gotten more attention than they have.