A note from Stan
Here’s the latest shot from NASA. Hurricane Ike is a powerful storm, and reports are that surges from twelve to twenty feet and more above normal tides along with large waves are already sweeping the Houston Shipping Channel and the outer islands.
If you prayed mightily that Hurricane not come to the Rio Grande Valley, well now it’s time to pray for those who are in its path.
If you are like St. Andy Cipowitz (of the old series Hill Street Blues) and restricted from prayer (like me), then its time to think good thoughts for the people in the storm’s path and to get ready to help if needed.
3 responses so far ↓
1 pamsiek // Sep 12, 2008 at 7:14 pm
take care. i am thinking of you all!
2 GeneNovo // Sep 12, 2008 at 8:45 pm
…and, the hurricane afar, like the ambulance’s scream in the night, and eveyone you love is withoin touch; like the bus accident that you’re not part of; like the body counts from warsthat are not you and yours ….
Self-preservation, so so important, so so narrow ….
We look at Ike, earlier, see the W marks turn to WNW, and more NW and N, and we’re safe and snug, just like those ambulances, and just like the printed obituaries, beneath the morning coffee cups and bagels and dry cereal, why, you’re not in them, drink on, eat on, and it’s also nice that most of the people in them are unknown to you - yet live someplace long enough - and you’ll know a death daily ….
…a bike death, a bike accident, I’m afraid to open the newspaper, and it’s no one I thought it could be ….
To quote Phil Ochs, and does anyone recall him, “And it doesn’t really matter outside of a small circle of friends ….”
…are we better of more, or are we just so so inner …?
Bad bad, Ike! Bad to Haiti! Bad to Cuba! Bad to the Upper Texas Coast! Good to us! Us and we and you and me ….
…and before damning me, I do write checks to the Red Cross …. Enough? Hardly, but ….
3 Stan // Sep 12, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Pam,
Thank you very much.
Gene,
Let me elevate your comment to a “Gene’s Notebook”entry. Whatcha say?
Stan
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