Namaste! Mekalekahimekahineeyho! Bonjour! Salaam! Hola! And of course HareKrishnaSusreekalSaiRam! In the tempests wake, may Blessings shower you, wherever you may be.
Yes, it has been an intense time and we praypraypray for our friends in Haiti. It was the biggest earthquake in 200years. Mercy! Have mercy!
Om Nama Shivaya.
Yes..there is a lot of tragedy on The Earth but Haiti has a quickly-rising deathcount maybe even over 200000! And over 3million people are directly affected. Those numbers will likely increase.
And it is sudden. And it is right now.
That is why it is on our tongues and our minds and in our broken hearts.
You know…
If you go to http://www.unicef.org/
You can donate funds, buy a safe water kit for a family, first aid supplykit, and find out what they have been doing. There are manymany organizations contributing besides Unicef, too.
There is the Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/
And you can even donate your blood!
Oxfam is: http://www.oxfam.org/
And Medecins Sans Frontieres is: http://www.msf.org/
World Vision is: http://wvi.org/wvi/wviweb.nsf

I encourage you to look at everyone’s websites and investigate which ones you like to help.
I like em all!!! Yeah…lots of folks don’t like “religious affiliations” to International Charities….and I appreciate and hear that…but it doesn’t reeeeally matter as long as people who NEED help GET help.
And as you can see…by my included snapshot…Vancouver, in all it’s pre-Olympic grumbling, has flowering trees.
Floweringfuckingtrees.
Visual gifts.
There is nothing for us to complain about. We have not had a catastrophic earthquake this week.
Period.
We are veryvery blessed to live here and stare at each other every morning. Period.
It takes a crisis, sometimes, to remind us of what is important and integral.
Or..we can try+aim to be “those” type of people where we live EVERYDAY like it’s our very last, and walk around absolutely gratefully PRESENT all the time. It is basic and pure.
Yeah, it can be achieved. And one can fall off+on the “Mindfully Going Through Each Day” bandwagon (because regular life does so distract with “stressors”) and still come BACK to CENTER! Time+time again!!
Because SOMETHING or SOMEONE gives us a “wake up call”. A reality check. Perspective.
And then we Return. Back+forth like waves.
I think that’s okay. I figure its normal for people.
Its a goal..a goal of Staying Awake and Aware.
It is a positive philosopy and will create good feelings. Trust me.
Maybe Haiti has blessed us with such a gift and now we can bless them in any way we are able.

We need Haiti more than Haiti needs us.

They, all the people, are priceless and irreplaceable.
Just like you are.
Lovelovelove from my heart,
Biffy
Xoxo

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