trying to send $

I was just on hold with the American Red Cross for half an hour trying to give those folks some of my plastic cash. However, I must go to bed as I have to wake up at 8:00 a.m. and be a good teacher. I'm going to call again tomorrow when I have a chunk of free time to wait on hold. The good news is that there are so many people calling in that the Red Cross doesn't have enough people to answer phones. Sometimes people really are thinking about others more than themselves and my phone wait is a heartening reminder.

Reading the interdictor 's blog supplies me with outrageous information, and the links available there and on the neworleans community provide me with a sense of reality I can't get from watching those I can't help think would better allocate their time lugging debris on television. It's the words on the page and the relentless narration of the situation that sound most heavily in my heart.

I hope that everyone I know is also thinking about donations of any sort and are willing to part with a bit of what they probably don't have in order to help relief efforts. It's got to start somewhere.