Hoping for the best...

[villa66]

We are seeing and listening to reports on the Italian earthquake some 5,000 miles away, here in the middle of the U.S. But distance disappears at times like these—our neighbors have been hurt. So here’s hoping….

 

v.

[volituripsetibiphoebus]

A friend in need is a friend indeed!

or, as ancestors would say: In angustiis apparent amici!

 

Thank you from Italy 

[villa66]

Last month’s Italian earthquake has long since fallen out of the American news, but of course that’s the way of things—there’s always a new tragedy to take everyone’s attention.

 

But—and we know this too well in the American Midwest, where tornados routinely end or upend people’s lives—that long after the TV cameras have left town, long after the print reporters have taken their pens and notepads elsewhere, the people who have been affected by these events remain affected, often for many years afterward.

 

So I write this small note, to express my continuing good wishes to those folks working through the many challenges that face them because of the terrible earthquake last month.

 

v.