08:19: i've been watching the news since the 26th. i've stopped. i feel so helpless watching the body count rise from an undetermined number to hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands... now it's over 117,000. i hate not being able to do anything. donate, sure, but i can only give so much. hardly seems like any help at all.
i heard on the news that the earthquake actually caused the planet to shift its axis. i remember reading some doomsday prophecy about a violent earthquake that will cause the earth to tilt back 23 degrees back to an upright position. i don't think this quake caused it to move the full 23 1/2 degrees... but it seemed so farfetched at the time. now the possibility has become all too real.
and by some stroke of luck, it happened on the side of an island where the resulting waves could not have reached us. had the quake's epicenter been farther east, our islands would have been too small and far apart to have stood a chance. i feel terribly lucky we're here, and terribly sorry i can do little for those who are there.
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