When Ben was born it was, of course, an amazing moment. Not just because of its inherent miraculousness alone, but also because of the environment. We were in an operating room (which was a drag), but all of the hospital personnel were women. I found this to be comforting in a world that had previously been dominated by old, white men. The anesthesiologist was playing Cat Stevens and the moment Ben came into the world, the song 'Wild World' was playing. It was perfect. Today I went to walk around the Lafayette Reservoir with my friend Maura. After listening to NPR on the drive over, I was devastated by the news of the destruction of Katrina and the Bush administration's apathetic response. As I passed all of the rich, white women with their $800 strollers and perfectly manicured hands and coiffed hair and their cell phones glued to their ears, moving obliviously through space, their worlds untouched, while children and the elderly are starving and dying in the South I realized what a wild world it is.
Let's do something to help these poor people. Here are some suggestions. Please offer others if you have them.
Donate money: http://www.redcross.org/ http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org
Donate goods: http://beenthere.typepad.com/been_there/2005/09/a_clearinghouse.html
Buy a CD: http://cdbaby.com/group/redcross
Buy a photograph: http://www.flickr.com/groups/katrina_auction/
And here's and article on what a bad job Bush is doing: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9174806/site/newsweek/