Potpourri

That is the only word that describes our day, "potpourri". Meetings, lunch, meeting, packing, translating letters, phone calls, not to mention a "heavy numb phantom foot". I think the foot felt left out of the activities. :))

It is harder to manage when "the foot" is so heavy, but hopefully it will soon be better.

The following is only a small part of a report on Haiti 4 months after the quake:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/11/haiti.then.now/index.html?iref=allsearch

If you want to know what it is like in Haiti now, this article tells it quite well.

"For many, Brun recognized, it's impossible to go back to the spot where their house once stood because there is no place to dispose of the rubble. In this city of renters, landlords are refusing to accept people who cannot pay the back rent for the four months they have been gone. Many of the displaced can no longer even afford the monthly amount they were paying before.

And as time marches on, many landowners want to evict displaced people so the buildings can be used as intended. What if your child could not go to school because the classrooms were occupied by the homeless? What if you were homeless and had no place to shelter your children except at the neighborhood school?"

Should we complain? I don't think so!!

God bless you each one.