Nothing But Our Lives
"We were left with nothing but our lives." That statement by a survivor of the tsunami disaster in Asia has haunted me since I read it. The person in question likely had lost everything in the most extreme sense -- home, livelihood, even family. The horror we have read about seems inconceivable from this side of the world. All the things in our lives, and the people we hold dear, are part of our precious personal ecosystems. But they are dust in the wind against Nature, or fate, or whatever name you assign to an inevitable force bigger than us. Loss is a fact of life. All we can do is comfort those who are stricken, and try not to be an agent of loss for others.
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