"Riding out the storm" got a lot of bad publicity. This is my comment on AOL:
I wrote this comment on behalf of the many who did not leave their homes around the world when the storm hit. There is a lot of bashing for of stay-ins for this. It amazes me how so many can criticize without knowing all the facts. Can you imagine a dog trained to find people, who saves lives every day, for a bowl of dogfood and a little love, being called "a filthy beast?"
It takes all kinds to make this world. I just wish we'd all be a little kinder to one another. Read my article on Happy Talking. Maybe, this will help a few.
COMMENT MADE ON AOL
10:09 AM Sep 15 2008
AuthorsDen.com/joycewhite
So many of you who are complaining viciously of us who stayed put, you aren't taking into consideration the mentality of a homeowner and a stay-at-home person. Our home is more than a domestic residence to many of us. Many of us are poor. We don't have gas to travel around nor the will to step out into our dangerous world. Yes, it is true our staying may pose a danger to others. For this I am sad. In good weather, I cannot leave my house for fear. I sweat, shake and take paranoia about everyone and every thing. When you get older, we are just sure there is a big bad wolf, maybe in human form, maybe, not waiting to take what little we have or even our lives, once we step outside. You can't argue with mother nature. Some of us are locked inside our homes mentally as well as physically. Every door locks from two sides. The inside and the outside mentally and physically. Don't bash those that were too frail, too afraid, too poor, or unable mentally to understand the storm was immune to four walls, lock and security codes. I am a shut-in because of chronic pain and depression. I was not in the path of the storm but I feel for those who stayed and those that left. We are living on an angry planet, what more can we do to alienate it but to pray and have faith in God? I'm a firm believer everything happens for a reason even though we do not know what it is now.
In Homage to Katrina, Ike & Gustaff:
The sky shrills with peril and gathers in a chasm of continuance yet the winds and waters groaning are no worse than our own mind-forged human cries. They do not go gentle into the night, Katrina, Ike & Gustaff, throwing our domesticity into turmoil and disarray, tools of the unliving oracles of destruction, moving through stone and metal, wrapping us with unfathomed wind and force, circling us, pounding us, drowning us by disciplining us of our graces, husbanding destruction on us all, these lords and stewards of their own excellence, deciding who shall live or die? Festering winds pouring the smells of dead fish and disease, on top of us, robbing us of our dreams and dignity, even as we wade away, leaving the bones of our civilized selves, turned to piles of kindling, we're all sad, tired and wet, wading and waiting for reprieve from our angry planet.
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