I’d love to think of it as a favorite Johnny Cash song, but this week’s weather maps tell me otherwise. I was shocked to see it on a world map, with earthquakes leading to our shores.
Just to top the largest earthquake in Japan’s history and a tsunami that followed moments later, now there is a nuclear situation that seems out of control. People in the US think it doesn’t matter, but it does. Our seas and the tectonic plates that hold us together, hold us together not as a nation but as a world. Also, if Japan’s financial markets tank, and so goes the world.
I am concerned that the larger media concern is for the nuclear issue, which is of extreme importance. So is finding survivors, a tenuous quest at this time, but the bigger issue is finding food, water, and medicine for 1/2 million people in shelters and those who cannot find shelter. It snowed last night, it’s cold there and people need assistance.
The best brains in the world are needed to avert nuclear disaster and it is hoped that Japanese officials will welcome additional brains from other countries to help sort out this situation. To have a meltdown would be a triple threat after the quake and tsunami and no nation deserves this kind of punishment.
Prayers and good wishes go to the Japanese people to survive this natural disaster and what devastation it has caused. Let’s help people find their families. Bury the dead, rebuild and renew. Toward a better future, Dee
Cooking with Dee 
It has been like a slow-motion nightmare, watching news coverage of this disaster from the comfort of my friends’ living room in Rockport…
Seemed unreal to have a nice social visit while workers were volunteering for a suicide mission – but we went on w/our plans to take the skimmer-boat tour to see the whooping cranes. The weather was breezy, cool & mild. We weren’t there to hit the beach anyway…