Blessed to be a Witness

My two closest friends here
Are Karin and Jerry
Karin has moved all over the country/world
and spent a lot of time in SF
It was on the minute we met
Total Jersey Girl dirty laugh and all
She totally gets me and I get her

Jerry Rocks
He is from Park Slope Brooklyn
a Fire Fighter Yogi
whoooo hooooo

(both pictured here to my left)

The three of us have had this great circle here
have just a blast together
We are all Virgo's
and we also have something else very important in common
This struck me to the core the other night

Karin lived in New Orleans prior to Katrina
She was on her way to the Superdome
and received a phone call from a Professor
who offered her a ride out of there
Right before it hit
She knows how blessed she is to have had a cell phone and a friend

Jerry was a Fire Fighter
During 911
He claims weeks after helping search for his brothers and sisters
in the aftermath
He could tap on his legs and soot would come out of his pores
He has done his work ( and is doing his work)
to make sense of this senselessness
and his light burns bright

And I
sat on the beach
and prayed
as One Hundred and Fifty thousand
(maybe more)
souls perished
One hour away from where I landed safely
From the Tsumami
Thank you Spirit
Thank you thank you thank you

While these events charge our undercurrent
The three largest catastrophies of our time
We live with these memories
and I do believe it is part of what has drawn us together
to be able to honor these events
with reverence
and celebrate the life
that is still ours to be

and again
I pray:

Full Coverage: Indonesia
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AFP/Graphic
Death toll in Indonesia tsunami at 86
AP - 46 minutes ago

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful earthquake sent a 6-foot-high tsunami crashing into beach resorts on Indonesia's Java island Monday, killing at least 86 people, leaving scores missing and sending thousands fleeing to higher ground, officials and witnesses said. Regional bulletins that the 7.7-magnitude undersea earthquake was strong enough to send a killer wave steaming toward the country worst hit by the 2004 Asian tsunami did not reach the victims, because the nation's main island has no warning system.