Why does this: http://beta.news.yahoo.com/flood-berm-collapses-nebraska-nuclear-plant-174718311.html
Remind me of this:
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Monday, December 6, 2010
Friday, August 21, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
In Tribute
Today is the sixth anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad; on that day, 22 people lost their lives, among them Sergio Vieira de Mello of Brazil, Special U.N. envoy to Iraq. Today is also the first ever World Humanitarian Day, a day to honor aid workers. The United Nations notes that 770 aid workers have died since 1997. Others have been kidnapped for ransom or thrown out of their host countries for political reasons. They have been shot at, harassed and threatened. Some of them have traveled thousands of miles to help others; some stay home, or in what is left of home, to give aid. Responding to natural disasters or to the suffering caused by their fellow human beings, these people represent what is best in our species. They are the ones who actually did do as Mahmoud Darwish urged:
Today, some of these special people were killed in Baghdad, some of the 100 or more killed, 600 wounded in multiple bombings. The loss of their light makes the world a darker place tonight.
If you are so moved, please light a candle to honor those, living and dead, who have given so much of themselves to help humanity. If you can, please consider a gift in their honor. Here are a few organizations that do much good. If you have others to suggest, please leave links in the comments.
International Federation of Red Cross, Red Crescent Societies
Oxfam International
UNICEF
Doctors Without Borders
And as you think of distant others--think of yourselves and say: I wish I were a candle in the darkness
Today, some of these special people were killed in Baghdad, some of the 100 or more killed, 600 wounded in multiple bombings. The loss of their light makes the world a darker place tonight.
If you are so moved, please light a candle to honor those, living and dead, who have given so much of themselves to help humanity. If you can, please consider a gift in their honor. Here are a few organizations that do much good. If you have others to suggest, please leave links in the comments.
International Federation of Red Cross, Red Crescent Societies
Oxfam International
UNICEF
Doctors Without Borders
Monday, August 10, 2009
Thinking of Others
Thursday, August 6, 2009
August 6
(Photo by NationalGeographic)
Love abides.
It's time, past time, to disarm.
And while we're at it, how about a constructive alternative:
(I'm sorry for the brevity. All the words I know are not enough to encompass the darkness of that day nor that of the days that will follow if we fail to stop following the path of destruction our species walks now.)
Love abides.
It's time, past time, to disarm.
And while we're at it, how about a constructive alternative:
(I'm sorry for the brevity. All the words I know are not enough to encompass the darkness of that day nor that of the days that will follow if we fail to stop following the path of destruction our species walks now.)
Labels:
Hiroshima,
Let Us Love One Another,
Music,
Peace
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Free as the Breeze (for a little while)
They may not have more than a tent over their heads; odds are they're malnourished. But today, thousands of children in Gaza gathered to prove they can still dream big. Their aim: a new world's record in mass kite flying. The UN helped them do it.
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