Watching the waves rush over the fields and streets and cars and houses and people and dogs and cats in Japan, I was shocked, saddened and scared. All those lives, just washed away and all I could do was watch.
I offer only my own moment of silence...small and insignificant... silence.
In honor of every life lost.
In honor of every struggle to live.
In honor of fear and determination and survival.
In honor of love.
Remembering reading about plate tectonics, subduction zones and continental plates as I edited my brother's college physics papers. As I corrected spelling and punctuation, I learned, not realizing, the lessons would be needed in my lifetime.
We may have dodged this tsunami bullet, here in the Pacific Northwest, but it was our Pacific plate that was involved in this earthquake. Not insignificant.
I take a breath and honor in silence the preciousness of life.
By Susan Gallacher-Turner
My website: www.susangt.com
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