The general Atlanta, Georgia area is under attack from a weather system that has dumped amazing amounts of rain since last Tuesday. The amount of rain that has fallen is absolutely insane and the ensuing destruction is almost impossible to conceive: roads under water, roads washed away, neighborhoods under water or completely cut off.
What amazes me is that this is not a tropical storm or tropical depression or any kind of named weather system, so we can't even refer to it by name. I think that a weather system this awful, this diabolical, this destructive needs a name, so I am calling it Dick Cheney.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
"Be thankful that you are one of the lucky ones"
I am tardy in posting the following link to an eyewitness account of 11 September 2001. It was sent to me last Friday via email and it has stayed with me since. I think it is always very important to view your life realistically and to remember that it likely can always be worse.
In the account, Diane Swonk, Chief Economist at Mesirow Financial, recounts what happened to her on that fateful day, and I particularly appreciate the following lines: "Remember those we lost on 9/11 and all those since then, including the casualties of the Great Recession. Take a meal to a family who is hungry, donate a coat to the homeless who will soon have to weather the winter and, for at least one moment, stop blaming and be thankful that you are one of the lucky ones."
In the account, Diane Swonk, Chief Economist at Mesirow Financial, recounts what happened to her on that fateful day, and I particularly appreciate the following lines: "Remember those we lost on 9/11 and all those since then, including the casualties of the Great Recession. Take a meal to a family who is hungry, donate a coat to the homeless who will soon have to weather the winter and, for at least one moment, stop blaming and be thankful that you are one of the lucky ones."
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