Yahoo! News - Tsunami Death Toll Soars Past 77,000
I've been watching this progress on the Internet -- haven't been watching the news because Patrick still has an earthquake phobia (as in, he won't even say the word) -- and I felt compelled to comment.
But now that I've started the blog entry -- I'm not sure there are words for this.
I'm not sure anyone can truly conceive of seventy-seven thousand life stories ending. I'm not sure, really, that you can make that number mean anything other than a-freaking-lot-of-people. Except that these were men, women, children...people who had hopes, dreams, memories, good and bad times, plans for the future -- everything you and I have. They might have been different plans for the future; in some cases, they might have been simpler memories....
But there you have it.
They were people -- that I had never met only because of a trick of geography, or of birth, that caused me to be born here and they to be born there.
Meanwhile, I try to conceptualize the sheer number of lives that have been lost this week, and I remember a simple quote: "The spear in the Other's heart is the spear in your own; you are he."
Even that doesn't do the sheer number of lives lost justice, and I really don't think there are words....
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