I have (mostly) written and deleted maybe a score of posts about Katrina. But I just can't, not yet. Too many friends, friends-of-friends, relatives-of-friends not yet accounted for. Too many mamas searching for their babies, and for every one my heart shatters into a million pieces. Too many mamas who wonder how and what their babies will eat. So much loss, it cannot be taken in.

Red Cross

Oxfam America

Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus. (Proust)