Comments on: Gustav’s Timely Gusts http://surfingthetao.com/2008/08/31/gustavs-timely-gusts/ Striving to increase awareness of our spiritual natures as well as the news, technologies and agendas in our world which influence them. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:02:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Todd http://surfingthetao.com/2008/08/31/gustavs-timely-gusts/comment-page-1/#comment-12708 Todd Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:19:16 +0000 http://surfingthetao.com/2008/08/31/gustavs-timely-gusts/#comment-12708 I couldn't agree more with your speculations about the recent "weather" events. I couldn’t agree more with your speculations about the recent “weather” events.

]]> By: Metta http://surfingthetao.com/2008/08/31/gustavs-timely-gusts/comment-page-1/#comment-12697 Metta Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:58:24 +0000 http://surfingthetao.com/2008/08/31/gustavs-timely-gusts/#comment-12697 It seems to be part of my fate-package to watch places I love and the people who populate them suffer through horror, followed by promptly being used as grist for political mills. I watched it happen before they even fished all the bodies out of the river when the bridge collapsed in my native Twin Cities, and now I'm watching it for the *second* time in New Orleans - and up a lot closer this time, as one of the bits of grist myself. It means this, it means that, it's this one's fault, it's that one's fault - and meanwhile, I can't even get back in to see what's left, and I'm by far one of the least burdened by that, having no kids and owning no land or home. Disasters haven't made me a cynic, but some days I'm sure that the almost complete failure of anyone in power to keep in mind that there are human beings involved in the things they manipulate will do the trick. Or maybe it's just driving the lesson home: Loving a place is futile. I don't like where I am now even a little, but here I'll stay, and just possibly start to unravel what it's all been about for me. And then there's that one particular human being.... :) OK, maybe not cynical, even now. Just very, very tired. (P.S.: Sorry if this is a duplicate; I got a really strange error the first time I tried.) It seems to be part of my fate-package to watch places I love and the people who populate them suffer through horror, followed by promptly being used as grist for political mills. I watched it happen before they even fished all the bodies out of the river when the bridge collapsed in my native Twin Cities, and now I’m watching it for the *second* time in New Orleans – and up a lot closer this time, as one of the bits of grist myself. It means this, it means that, it’s this one’s fault, it’s that one’s fault – and meanwhile, I can’t even get back in to see what’s left, and I’m by far one of the least burdened by that, having no kids and owning no land or home.

Disasters haven’t made me a cynic, but some days I’m sure that the almost complete failure of anyone in power to keep in mind that there are human beings involved in the things they manipulate will do the trick. Or maybe it’s just driving the lesson home: Loving a place is futile. I don’t like where I am now even a little, but here I’ll stay, and just possibly start to unravel what it’s all been about for me. And then there’s that one particular human being…. :)

OK, maybe not cynical, even now. Just very, very tired.

(P.S.: Sorry if this is a duplicate; I got a really strange error the first time I tried.)

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