The Sunshine Empire

I wrote at the close of the aughts that it seemed the decade was filled with disaster movie type cataclysms. We’ve all found that the topsy-turvy nature of things has continued into this decade. Earlier this week it was snowing and sleeting south of me, and I live in Florida. But in much more tragic and serious news the earthquake and destruction yesterday in Haiti is unfathomable.

The earthquake seems to have literally destroyed the city of Port Au Prince. After the destruction of New Orleans and the Asian Tsunami, movie type disaster seems no longer the stuff of the cinema. We should all pray for the staggering amount of people who seem to have lost their lives in the Haiti earthquake. Most of us take for granted living in the developed world, but after quakes in Indonesia, Pakistan, China, the Asian Tsunami, we seem not to be amazed anymore when nature takes lives in the hundreds of thousands for one event. Regardless, we should all pray for the people of Haiti.