two for the road

[sway2sway]

I've been watching these videos and reading these blogs for the past hour: beaming smiles alternating with balling eyes (yeah my own...thanks PMS).
A school teacher from chicago and a newly schooled MD won a trip for a week to the congo with some new york times guy (editorialist, I think?)
They have written blogs, as well as done videos, on this site- about visits to refugee camps, starving children, warlords, living conditions, lots of stuff...with an emphasis on our similarities being greater than our differences. I don't think there is ever enough reminding of that. They're articulate, compassionate, very interesting I think.

http://twofortheroad.blogs.nytimes.com/

[Miss Shark]

It's a crying shame that people don't realise or see the simlarities, or even worse they say they know that's true, but they don't act like as if it were so.


More than four million people have died in Congo’s wars since 1998, making it the most lethal conflict since World War II.

Probably no slaughter has gotten fewer column inches — or fewer television minutes — per million deaths. So even after all that suffering, Congo still hasn’t risen to a prominent place on the international agenda.

[sway2sway]

yeah it's unreal, isn't it shark? It makes me embarassed for our world that we can't mobilize our resources, organize ourselves, and exploit our compassion--to do more.

this was the first video I watched, reflections from the school teacher. a lot of good photos he took in it.

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=6e9fb5c2284ca2ee95692a9eeef42d65445c4071

[Miss Shark]

Well said. Do you get just plain ole stupid when you are sick? I do, or perhaps I should say more stupid. Something happens when my head fills up, it ceases to work as well.

[sway2sway]

it's just busier doing other stuff like directing snot traffic, organizing white blood cell rallies, hosting macrophage clean up parties....less time for thinking, more doing.
go with the flow. get better.

[Miss Shark]

The traffic is lessening thanks!