Reach out, Touch faith
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I wanted to post here this image to finish the year with it as a reminder of what is happenning in the world right now, to help us reflect and put things in perspective. And also I wanted to post this to begin the new year with an image of will to help, will to love and will to support.
My hand is small, I am home, far away, no money to donate... geez I am filled with helplessness. However, even in this situation there is something I can do: show my care about what is happenning, point other people where they can help, suppport with an image and my words... Spread the message, enlarge the chain.
The spirit of this community is based in this simple principle: No matter how big or small you contribution is: We need you. The importance of each of our actions and interactions always impact the whole. The principle of synchronicity, of "at-one-ness"... the chain effect.
Have a happy new year, wish you the best, whatever this means to each of you, and let us all pray and hope things to get better for our brothers in Asia.
Peace.
6 Comments: (go down to newest )
I LOVE YOUR HAND !
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=D Thank you!
Here is another link: Tsunami Aftermath from the www.flickr.com blog. It gathers many links to photos, information and group for help. Take note on the link to the group: Tsunami Missing Persons and the SE Asia help blog itself.
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Letter from Malaysia
"----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Selvanayagam" ejrs.com@gmail.com
To: "Gisela Giardino" info@giselagiardino.com.ar
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 6:46 PM
Subject: hi gisela
Hi So Sorry for not getting back to you sooner
I am helping with the tsunami relief work distributing food and supplies.
It's really crazy ... the Tsunami hit the beach near my house. 5
minutes walking distance from my house. Some girl friends from Norway
visiting and I went to town that day by bus and we saw the boat thrown
from sea onto the road real us. Another friend was almost hit by
another boat. Today we went to check on the villages and the
volunteers were helping to put sad to cover all the mud from the sea
so that later they can tear down the houses to build new houses in
that area.
My father's uncle was killed by the tsunami in Sri Lanka. His
helper's daughters were also killed. He was 82 years old and the
helpers family were all teenagers. Everything is destroyed. Is so
sad.
Some organizations are working with me now like the US Geological
Survey (USGS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
and many other are helping me put together statistics and info
together to help people.
http://thanks4supporting.us/tsunami - all the latest info and
statistics are here.
Pls help us tell as many friends and people as you can by email about
the link. if you can add it to your websites it will help too. We
need all the help now.
Tomorrow we are providing 6 vans and drivers to take a team to another
badly hit town to help give food, school shoes and uniforms to school
children, and many other supplies.
I gotta run. Take care Gisela.
--
With Regards
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"On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won’t understand
Don’t accept that what’s happening
Is just a case of others’ suffering
Or you’ll find that you’re joining in
The turning away
It’s a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting it’s shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone
We could find that we’re all alone
In the dream of the proud
On the wings of the night
As the daytime is stirring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerized as they light the flame
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night
No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share
It’s not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there’ll be
No more turning away?"
"On the turning away" .mp3by Pink Floyd in "A momentary Lapse of Reason"
Right click link, "save as" option to download song, 8MB.
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The link to the song is broken... here it is ok.
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Chris (czarandom) and I have been on a brief email conversation triggered by this post about the Tsunami catastrophe. His thoughts sounded very enlightnening to me and true. So I asked him to post the exchange in case you want to give your opinion as well. Here it goes:
----- Original Message -----
From: "czar"
To: "Gisela Giardino"
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Eclectic Thinkers] 1/2/2005 04:59:45 AM
It's funny, as I was reading this, the song Tsunami by Sven Van Hees... It makes the point that nobody ever had to remind cavemen that they were alive, they had to kill for their food or die. For us, it takes a natural massacre.
Are you alive?
-chris
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 15:11:35 -0300, Gisela Giardino wrote:
Your reflection is impressive. Simple and stunning like all wise thoughts are.
I am alive... and if all this pisses me off somehow is because of this you mention:
It seems like people need to witness/live something of this measure to reflect... to realize...
Until the next-hour show on TV will fortunately distract us with some naked women, flashing lights and music to leave us deaf and blind...
...back again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "czar"
To: "Gisela Giardino"
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Eclectic Thinkers] 1/2/2005 04:59:45 AM
Thank you Gi.
It seems as if nature imposes on us a special kind of humility that we couldn't otherwise earn despite our best efforts. It every so often demands of us an abrupt reality check: death. In experiencing a rarefied version of this ineffable force of organization we call life, that is, self awareness, we seem to forget that we are all made of stars whether by means of media, profession, religion, or simple delusion, we lose touch with our larger identity as living things.
It's thoughts like this that allow me to be thankful for the way I am all too often brought to my knees before my nature. Funny huh?
In other words, I think I'm alive too ;Þ
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