Stumble It!
We all feel the same, heart-sick, heart-broken, heart-aching for the people of Japan. I've been thinking about Sadako and the thousand paper cranes and the belief that wishes are granted to those who fold that many. Sadako Sasaki, two years old when the bomb was dropped near her home in Hiroshima, died of leukemia when she was almost 12, having folded 664 cranes, short of her goal of 1000. Her classmates finished for her.
This post speaks to my heart about the helplessness that we are all feeling, and the ache of human suffering we want to ease. click the link above to see the whole post.
Also if you haven't given yet, it's never too late. You can go to the Japan Relief page at CBC.ca (http://www.cbc.ca/japanrelief/) and choose from a number of ways to help and see the latest news about the disaster.
