Just saw a footage on the Tsunami in Japan. I don't remember feeling so frightened in such a long time. I must have been getting complacent. What it must feel like to be in the midst of such a rude reminder of how fragile our lives are, and everything we work so hard to build around ourselves, how all that is really nothing in a larger scheme of things. We are really nothing more than this: small temporal beings--what is worth saying in the face of all this? And what can I say really about what is happening across the ocean?

I just feel blessed that today, I can still sit on my bed, in front of my laptop and watch disaster somewhere else in the safety of a screen. With the wonderful knowledge that my family is safe and everyone around me whom I love is all right.