Global Matters.

In some ways all this wandering around the world with stuffed toys and enjoying the fruits of the earth has been rendered hollow. Georgina and I have been so saddened, almost to tears, by the tsunami destruction more especially as we were in one of the most devastated areas just two weeks before the tragedy. It is hard to forget the Thai people who worked there, they would persuade one to turn Buddhist because of their unaffected humour and giggles. I see the faces of the girls who flitted around the cottages in colourful sarongs always cheerful like so many exotic parrots. I wonder if they are still alive and cannot imagine any of that place surviving as it was all on beach level with no protection at all. We remember the boatman, Kit, who brought us out to an island off the bay for snorkelling in his longtailed motorboat. We swam off the side of the boat and he was along side like a protective dolphin. It can only be an enticement to think global and act local, to commit unprovoked acts of kindness as much as possible and Carpe Diem. Much more no doubt too, we are still in the stage of trying to come to terms with the import of such a thing.

Does it not make man made events of destruction even more despicable viz. what Blair and Bush have caused in Iraq?