Pain, Empathy and Worry
Dec. 29th, 2004 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamWe've decided to do without fireworks this year and instead give the money to the aid effort. If you can, I encourage you all to make a contribution to the aid effort for the devestation caused by the tsunami. The death toll is staggering and help is desperately needed.
Saphie has some information on how to donate for Americans. CNN has a list of links to aid organisations here. Your local newspapers should probably have information on how to donate in your area. If you can, help out.
The scale is just unimaginable. So many dead it's just painful to watch. There is a point where empathy just becomes pain and I think I've reached that. There's this hard lump in my chest where my heart is. I cannot even imagine how people in those countries directly hit are feeling. I know only how I feel.
Most Europeans missing are Scandinavians.
This could be the worst disaster for my little country since the war as well as for Scandinavia. And my country owns a large chunk of my heart so when it bleeds, I bleed. I got one guy missing in my neighbourhood that I know of. I keep worrying people I know have gone there without me knowing, but so far I haven't heard of any.
In other, semi-related news:
Bush gets his panties in a twist
Saphie has some information on how to donate for Americans. CNN has a list of links to aid organisations here. Your local newspapers should probably have information on how to donate in your area. If you can, help out.
The scale is just unimaginable. So many dead it's just painful to watch. There is a point where empathy just becomes pain and I think I've reached that. There's this hard lump in my chest where my heart is. I cannot even imagine how people in those countries directly hit are feeling. I know only how I feel.
Most Europeans missing are Scandinavians.
This could be the worst disaster for my little country since the war as well as for Scandinavia. And my country owns a large chunk of my heart so when it bleeds, I bleed. I got one guy missing in my neighbourhood that I know of. I keep worrying people I know have gone there without me knowing, but so far I haven't heard of any.
In other, semi-related news:
Bush gets his panties in a twist
