On Food & Culture
Witnessing the images and sounds of the Katrina disaster, Marilyn Born, a dear friend from Melbourne Australia, wrote this poem/prayer. She said that she kept “thinking about the second and third⦠wave of grievers (vicarious trauma) So wrote this. It helped me to get it …
Houston Rocks. Yesterday we did not have to spend a single penny to buy airline tickets for Katrina survivors. Why? Because a horde of volunteers showed up with cars and vans, ready to drive families and groups to various cities. (This with gas prices being …
Two questions for today are: 1) can we ever control people’s expression? What are the circumstances under which we should control people’s expression? 2) will the proprietary model (i.e., viewing information as private property like houses and cars)continue as the only paradigm for information and …
The work at the tech center at the Astrodome is shifting slightly to housing, employment and travel. As regards travel, we need more help in the form of either cash or plane tickets for people who have found family members and need to reunite with …
An opinion piece by Thomas L. Friedman in today’s Houston Chronicle aptly focuses on Bush’s administration of our country. “These are people so much better at inflicting pain than feeling it, so much better at taking things apart than putting them together, so much better …
Another day at the Astrodome has brought some hope for the Katrina survivors as some are locating family members through Internet searches. Yesterday, after repeated attempts, I found the 17-year-old daughter of a father who had fled to Houston. She had been evacuated to Mississippi. …
Hope is alive and well at the Houston Astrodome and Reliant Stadium. Hundreds and hundreds of Houstonians are volunteering for the huge task of providing hospitality, food, medical attention to our guests. We received good news today that Yahoo is programming its Hurricane survivor site …
I’ve just returned from the Astrodome, exhausted but feeling good about the many Houstonians who are volunteering to help. Many volunteers are still needed at the Astrodome and Reliant Center. Because of his medical background, my partner, Richard, helped with triage at the medical area. …
At midnight this morning buses that were bringing refugees from New Orleans to the Houston Astrodome were turned away. Capacity at the Astrodome was full. Bedlam was everywhere. Whoever made the decision to bring 24,000 people from the Superdome to the AStrodome must be crazy. …
Crawford, Texas, having supper and talking with Cindy Sheehan and other moms, family of soldiers who have died in Iraq. It has been over 100 degrees, but anti-war community women, men, children are in good spirits and determined to make a change in this war …