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23 February 2011

I am thinking of Christchurch

Yesterday, the second earthquake in Christchurch. The front page of today's The Dominion Post says, "It was a city just learning to sleep without fear" and a friend in New Zealand writes in an email, "we are all in it".
I felt the quake last September. The bed was shaking, miles and miles away. This time, though unfelt, there is more fear. Yes, we are all there.
Photo: Lichen and rail at a cemetery in Masterton, New Zealand
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3 comments:

Elbe Lau said...

Great to learn you're fine. Elbe

24 February, 2011 01:13
Madeleine Marie Slavick said...

thanks, elbe

24 February, 2011 14:18
Madeleine Marie Slavick said...

12 March. It is almost three weeks since the earthquake in Chch (the abbreviation for Christchurch) and another earthquake has now hit Japan. I have contacted friends from that country, and I thank everyone who has been thinking of people here... Just the other day, a friend I met during earthquake relief work in Gujarat, India in 2001 was in contact... Just this morning, word from an Oxfam colleague with whom I visited Aceh, the epicentre of the 2005 tsunami... And almost every day, I hear from someone who has been working on longterm efforts after the Sichuan earthquake of 2008. I do not mention all of these crises lightly. Each one has been major, life-changing. But I think of all the good work that Oxfam does, of all the goodness that comes from survivors helping each other... And I remember that the Chinese word for 'crisis' combines 'danger' and 'opportunity'. I offer my wishes for good life changes.

12 March, 2011 13:17

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