I heard today that he was picked up, from a third storey in his home.
At 77, a treasure to keep. SO one small piece of good news among the
horrible.
Things do seem to be getting worse so far.
Doug
On 1-Sep-05, at 7:59 PM, Frank Parker wrote:
> Fats Domino is missing. A passerby reported his boat was too small to
> haul
> Fats, last seen on a second story balcony ankle deep...
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:23 PM
> Subject: Hurricane Katrina / some thoughts
>
>
>> I - as I suspect like many or most - want to register my deepest
>> feelings
> of
>> sorrow for those suffering and those lost in the wake of Hurricane
> so-called
>> Katrina.
>> In terms of the United States (a unitary concept which feels more and
>> more
>> like an oxymoron) this unfolding event - its terror, its hunger, its
>> potential for famine and desperate acts of violence - is beyond
>> anything
>> most of us could ever imagine. It's like a whole portion of the
>> country is
>> experiencing another version of the Donner Party - only this time on a
> scale
>> so magnified that the consequence will undoubtedly affect every
>> element of
>> this country's infrastructure, including its emotional well being.
>> Ironically, since there is no one 'foreign' that can be pointed to in
>> the
>> manner of Al Queda - but only Nature - the country's collective body
>> is
>> going to have to go way deep inside itself to muster the resolve to
>> emerge
>> in some kind of forward moving shape. Sadly, given the blind
>> belligerence
> of
>> its leadership - including its faith based commitment to Intelligent
> Design
>> to the denial of Global Warming - it will be astonishing, but may be
>> possible under the circumstances to imagine a transformation based on
>> pragmatic principles, rather than ones of faith. We can pray for that!
> Yes,
>> to imagine this President wading into the flooded waters of New
>> Orleans,
> and
>> lifting black, white and impoverished children into the air and
>> saying
> some
>> equivalent to one of his previous mantras, "No child left behind"
>> would be
> a
>> human start on the process. I won't bet on it. But hope.
>>
>> Otherwise this event - which will also be sustained - will be as grim
>> as
> the
>> unrelieved military devastation of parts of Iraq. All ideology (puff
> speech
>> and puff cures) and minimal healing. It will be the ultimate irony of
> this
>> Administration - through a selfish lack of imagination and inaction -
>> to
>> offer us both homeless Iraqi war veterans on the same streets in
>> which we
>> will find homeless hurricane refugees.
>>
>> I would like to hear what anybody else is feeling or thinking.
>>
>> Big tests to everyone here are obviously coming up.
>>
>> Stephen V
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
not random, these
crystalline structures, these
non-reversible orders, this
camera forming tendencies, this
edge of greater length, this
lyric forever error, this
something embarrassingly clear, this
language we come up against
Kathleen Fraser
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