Katrina

I’ve been watching and reading the news obsessively. The stories just don’t seem real. Women being raped in the Superdome, babies being separated from their parents, people without food and water for days. This is why I have trouble sleeping, even more than usual. I close my eyes and I see the faces from TV, the water and I can’t breathe. Then I feel guilty that I have a roof over my head, clothes on my back, food in my tummy, and surrounded with the love of my family. There are no words. I’m pretty damn lucky. Its sad it takes times like these to realize that.

The stories are heartbreaking. The way America has come together to help makes me proud to be an American from ads offering a room or a phone call on craigslist to corporations donating supplies and money.

I have a lot of political gripes right now, but I won’t vent them now. There’s going to be a lot of finger-pointing for a long time. I just hope it doesn't take away the from those who lost it all.

I’ll end with a powerful quote William Faulkner cited by Morgan Freeman said during tonight’s televised Shelter from the Storm fundraising concert. Sometimes others say it best.

"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."

Touching. One thing I’ve learned through all the television watching is that the human spirit is capable of more than we even comprehend. We face hard and impossible obstacles in life sometimes, but we are much more stronger than we even believe ourselves to be. Life goes on, it always will. The soul will keep on surviving and flourish as we change with the world. That’s just how the human spirit works.