Found this in E. Ethelbert Miller's blog, a beautiful and moving short written piece on life and finding a way back in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, by Louisiana poet laureate Brenda Marie Osbey, here. This is a link to the main page, scroll down a little, her piece (beginning "Dear Ethelbert" and then "To Whom It May Concern") is in the posts for today Sept. 1st.
Please also see the "FANTASY CHALLENGE" post below here in Cafe Cafe today Sept. 1st, about a poem contest with prize money going as a donation to the Red Cross for hurricane disaster relief.
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Lyle
Thanks for that link. It was good to read such strength in the letter from one among many who has lost so much.
Some of those fleeing have ending up in Georgia. A friend of mine who lives half the year in a small mountain town found a grandmother, two of her grown children, their spouses and children crammed into a tent in tent grounds near them. My friend has a small guest home for the many relatives who visit so she moved the family into that house. Her brother is one of the ones still unaccounted for in Alabama since the flooding.
Besides the looting and shooting, people are already performing acts of unrecorded generosity. I'm sure my friend is not an isolated example, thank goodness.
Pris
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