Friday, January 15, 2010

What to say?

It's difficult to find the words to express the horror of what has happened in Haiti this week. Every news bulletin brings heart rending stories of real people undergoing unimaginable trauma and loss.

Standing at my kitchen sink this morning, washing a bundle of handmade socks, I was struck with the irony of it all. There I was washing, rinsing and re-rinsing without a care for where the water came from, safe in the knowledge that I had as much of it as I could ever want or need, listening to Radio 4 and a Haitian father appealing for help, pleading for fresh water, asking to be remembered.

We all love blogland for it's ability to cheer us, to take us away from 'real' life, to escape a little into a safe and colourful world, full of beauty and inspiration. Sometimes, we just can't ignore the real world out there.

There's little we can do other than hope and pray for those affected - and donate to the emergency appeal.

Here are some useful links:

DEC
UNICEF
Oxfam

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11 comments:

  1. Locket PocketJanuary 15, 2010 at 12:25 PM

    Brilliantly put Moogs. Locket xx

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  2. trashJanuary 15, 2010 at 3:01 PM

    thanks Missus Moog. Am putting to gether a Second Trash raffle so anyone who contributes can earn raffle tickets. details up later.

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  3. Angel JemJanuary 15, 2010 at 3:13 PM

    Thanks for putting it into words. I wept yesterday when listening to a man on the radio who had found his son's body and would not leave it to go into a mass grave but couldn't afford the coffin to bury him.

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  4. dottycookieJanuary 15, 2010 at 4:17 PM

    Hear hear. Well said.

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  5. French KnotsJanuary 15, 2010 at 6:59 PM

    It's just too awful.

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  6. JulieJanuary 15, 2010 at 10:17 PM

    Well said Lesley. It is difficult to comprehend the scale of this disaster when we take so many things for granted here.

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  7. wonderwomanJanuary 15, 2010 at 10:28 PM

    absolutely agree Lesley - we take so much for granted sometimes and something like this really brings it home.

    xxx

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  8. KittyJanuary 21, 2010 at 1:26 PM

    Hear, hear Mrs Moogs. x

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  9. DottyJanuary 21, 2010 at 5:48 PM

    good words

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  10. TwiggyJanuary 23, 2010 at 9:29 PM

    Well said Mrs Moog !!
    Twiggy x

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  11. Suzie Sews At DOTTY REDJanuary 24, 2010 at 7:02 PM

    I think your words are very suitable. Its a difficult difficult thing to express the horror and helplessness of this situation. I can not believe that in our world the help and support that should just happen does not and then you listen to the various parties with any power in this country and they argue over such stupid matters when people are buried alive....shocking!!!

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