You know what I want to know?

Why aren't they dropping supplies in those isolated pockets of desperate people in New Orleans?

People are dying. They seem to be flapping their jaws about rules and laws and limits on what different groups can do and in the meantime NOBODY IS DROPPING WATER AND SURVIVAL RATIONS TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DYING!

They dropped those things to the people of Iraq a heck of a lot quicker than they're doing it for our own citizens.

WHY AREN'T THEY DOING THAT?????

They keep saying these people chose to stay when it's clear from the interviews for the last few days that most of these people didn't have the ability to leave. Many didn't have cars. Those that did didn't have fuel for them.

This is breaking my heart. Eric and I are both yelling at the stupid officials as they BS on TV.


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They've partnered with Yahoo to deal with the incredible bulk of donations.

13 years ago Monday...

Eric pretended he had a craving for a sausage croissant on Monday so he could slip out and buy me a dozen red roses. I'd already told him he didn't need to, but when he didn't come back as quickly as usual I knew what he was up to. *swoon* I love him so much!

I posted a detailed account of our wedding a few years ago in this post. It was such a magical day. Everything that went wrong made it better. :)

We got married in a redwood cathedral. I always feel so connected to my higher power in the redwoods. The age of the mother tree of a redwood circle as large as this one meant it was alive and mature when Jesus walked the earth. In a redwood grove, I can feel the history the trees lived through and it fills me with awe more than any man-made building ever could. Happily, Eric agreed and we had a formal, traditional wedding in the wilds of a nature preserve. We had our reception in the attached picnic area. The grove is visible in the reception shot below.

( Favorite pictures of that day. )