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K_Love
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Posted:
Mar 17, 2011 - 7:56am |
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Japanese nuclear worker on the news: "I am prepared to die to avoid meltdown."
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cc_rider
Location: Bastrop Gender:
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Mar 17, 2011 - 7:44am |
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hippiechick wrote: This letter, touching as it is, is all over the internet. I don't know its original source, but if you google it, you will see it pop up in many sites. It may be real, but it's not from the source that Rose quoted.
Yeah, I searched on Salon for it since you mentioned it, but it didn't come up. It very well could be fiction. I like to think it's not, but who knows anymore.
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Mar 17, 2011 - 7:39am |
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cc_rider wrote:This is outstanding. Truly wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing, it really puts a face on the tragedy.
Edit: I would like to post the letter to FB. I think everybody could learn something from this one simple letter. I won't post it without prior approval though. Thank you.
This letter, touching as it is, is all over the internet. I don't know its original source, but if you google it, you will see it pop up in many sites. It may be real, but it's not from the source that Rose quoted.
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cc_rider
Location: Bastrop Gender:
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Mar 17, 2011 - 7:35am |
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rosedraws wrote:A letter from a friend in my town:
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This is outstanding. Truly wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing, it really puts a face on the tragedy. Edit: I would like to post the letter to FB. I think everybody could learn something from this one simple letter. I won't post it without prior approval though. Thank you.
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Mar 17, 2011 - 7:33am |
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rosedraws wrote:A letter from a friend in my town:
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From my cousin in Sendai, Japan where she has lived for the past decade teaching English.
Hello My Lovely Family and Friends,
First I want to thank you so very much for your concern for me. I am very touched. I also wish to apologize for a generic message to you all. But it seems the best way at the moment to get my message to you.
Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even more worthy of that name, I am now staying at a friend’s home. We share supplies like water, food and a kerosene heater. We sleep lined up in one room, eat by candlelight, share stories. It is warm, friendly, and beautiful.
During the day we help each other clean up the mess in our homes. People sit in their cars, looking at news on their navigation screens, or line up to get drinking water when a source is open. If someone has water running in their home, they put out a sign so people can come to fill up their jugs and buckets.
Utterly amazingly where I am there has been no looting, no pushing in lines. People leave their front door open, as it is safer when an earthquake strikes. People keep saying, “Oh, this is how it used to be in the old days when everyone helped one another.”
Quakes keep coming. Last night they struck about every 15 minutes. Sirens are constant and helicopters pass overhead often.
We got water for a few hours in our homes last night, and now it is for half a day. Electricity came on this afternoon. Gas has not yet come on.
But all of this is by area. Some people have these things, others do not. No one has washed for several days. We feel grubby, but there are so much more important concerns than that for us now. I love this peeling away of non-essentials. Living fully on the level of instinct, of intuition, of caring, of what is needed for survival, not just of me, but of the entire group.
There are strange parallel universes happening. Houses a mess in some places, yet then a house with futons or laundry out drying in the sun.
People lining up for water and food, and yet a few people out walking their dogs. All happening at the same time.
Other unexpected touches of beauty are first, the silence at night. No cars. No one out on the streets. And the heavens at night are scatteredwith stars. I usually can see about two, but now the whole sky is filled.
The mountains of Sendai are solid and with the crisp air we can see them silhouetted against the sky magnificently.
And the Japanese themselves are so wonderful. I come back to my shack to check on it each day, now to send this e-mail since the electricity is on, and I find food and water left in my entranceway. I have no idea fromwhom, but it is there. Old men in green hats go from door to door checking to see if everyone is OK. People talk to complete strangers asking if they need help. I see no signs of fear. Resignation, yes, but fear or panic, no.
They tell us we can expect aftershocks, and even other major quakes, for another month or more. And we are getting constant tremors, rolls, shaking, rumbling. I am blessed in that I live in a part of Sendai that is a bit elevated, a bit more solid than other parts. So, so far this area is better off than others. Last night my friend’s husband came in from the country, bringing food and water. Blessed again.
Somehow at this time I realize from direct experience that there is indeed an enormous Cosmic evolutionary step that is occurring all over the world right at this moment. And somehow as I experience the events happening now in Japan, I can feel my heart opening very wide. My brother asked me if I felt so small because of all that is happening. I don’t. Rather, I feel as part of something happening that much larger than myself. This wave of birthing (worldwide) is hard, and yet magnificent.
Thank you again for your care and Love of me,
With Love in return, to you all,
A touching letter for sure, but I am not so sure of the source, since I have already read this letter somewhere else, I think on Salon.
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K_Love
Gender:
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Posted:
Mar 17, 2011 - 7:30am |
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rosedraws wrote:A letter from a friend in my town:
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OK, I'm completely welled up with tears right now. What an amazing attitude. I'm not sure I could be so strong and positive.
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rosedraws
Location: close to the edge Gender:
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Posted:
Mar 17, 2011 - 6:56am |
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A letter from a friend in my town:
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From my cousin in Sendai, Japan where she has lived for the past decade teaching English.
Hello My Lovely Family and Friends,
First I want to thank you so very much for your concern for me. I am very touched. I also wish to apologize for a generic message to you all. But it seems the best way at the moment to get my message to you.
Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even more worthy of that name, I am now staying at a friend’s home. We share supplies like water, food and a kerosene heater. We sleep lined up in one room, eat by candlelight, share stories. It is warm, friendly, and beautiful.
During the day we help each other clean up the mess in our homes. People sit in their cars, looking at news on their navigation screens, or line up to get drinking water when a source is open. If someone has water running in their home, they put out a sign so people can come to fill up their jugs and buckets.
Utterly amazingly where I am there has been no looting, no pushing in lines. People leave their front door open, as it is safer when an earthquake strikes. People keep saying, “Oh, this is how it used to be in the old days when everyone helped one another.”
Quakes keep coming. Last night they struck about every 15 minutes. Sirens are constant and helicopters pass overhead often.
We got water for a few hours in our homes last night, and now it is for half a day. Electricity came on this afternoon. Gas has not yet come on.
But all of this is by area. Some people have these things, others do not. No one has washed for several days. We feel grubby, but there are so much more important concerns than that for us now. I love this peeling away of non-essentials. Living fully on the level of instinct, of intuition, of caring, of what is needed for survival, not just of me, but of the entire group.
There are strange parallel universes happening. Houses a mess in some places, yet then a house with futons or laundry out drying in the sun.
People lining up for water and food, and yet a few people out walking their dogs. All happening at the same time.
Other unexpected touches of beauty are first, the silence at night. No cars. No one out on the streets. And the heavens at night are scatteredwith stars. I usually can see about two, but now the whole sky is filled.
The mountains of Sendai are solid and with the crisp air we can see them silhouetted against the sky magnificently.
And the Japanese themselves are so wonderful. I come back to my shack to check on it each day, now to send this e-mail since the electricity is on, and I find food and water left in my entranceway. I have no idea fromwhom, but it is there. Old men in green hats go from door to door checking to see if everyone is OK. People talk to complete strangers asking if they need help. I see no signs of fear. Resignation, yes, but fear or panic, no.
They tell us we can expect aftershocks, and even other major quakes, for another month or more. And we are getting constant tremors, rolls, shaking, rumbling. I am blessed in that I live in a part of Sendai that is a bit elevated, a bit more solid than other parts. So, so far this area is better off than others. Last night my friend’s husband came in from the country, bringing food and water. Blessed again.
Somehow at this time I realize from direct experience that there is indeed an enormous Cosmic evolutionary step that is occurring all over the world right at this moment. And somehow as I experience the events happening now in Japan, I can feel my heart opening very wide. My brother asked me if I felt so small because of all that is happening. I don’t. Rather, I feel as part of something happening that much larger than myself. This wave of birthing (worldwide) is hard, and yet magnificent.
Thank you again for your care and Love of me,
With Love in return, to you all,
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NoEnzLefttoSplit
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Posted:
Mar 16, 2011 - 10:40pm |
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best explanation I've found about the nuclear threat yetsounds to me like the quake either damaged the pools or sloshed the water out of them. Either way, it's going to be damn hard to get this under control and it seems like a much more serious threat than a core meltdown which is contained. BTW despite this horror scenario unfolding before our eyes it unfortunately pales before the damage already caused by the tsunami and the threat of a major (M8) aftershock which is more than likely.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Mar 16, 2011 - 6:10pm |
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arighter2 wrote: oh, that's just fucking great.
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arighter2
Location: dubuque Gender:
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BlueHeronDruid
Location: Заебани сме луѓе
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Posted:
Mar 16, 2011 - 5:25pm |
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oldslabsides wrote:so you're telling me about it, why? My sister got tired of me emailing her questions. I don't remember specifically addressing this to you, my jittery friend.
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Manbird
Location: ? ? ? Gender:
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Mar 16, 2011 - 5:22pm |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote:A good site, but not for the anxiety prone. Be sure to refresh your browser to get the latest updates. Refresh your browser and ZOOM WAY IN
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Posted:
Mar 16, 2011 - 5:20pm |
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BlueHeronDruid wrote:A good site, but not for the anxiety prone. Be sure to refresh your browser to get the latest updates. so you're telling me about it, why?
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BlueHeronDruid
Location: Заебани сме луѓе
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Posted:
Mar 16, 2011 - 4:58pm |
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A good site, but not for the anxiety prone. Be sure to refresh your browser to get the latest updates.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Posted:
Mar 16, 2011 - 4:54pm |
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So, assuming the reactors that are involved melt down - and it's looking like they're gonna - how big an area of Japan is going to be uninhabitable for a few hundred thousand years?
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SPAM: cyber-inse...
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Aug 30, 2010 - 1:53am |
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To donna_birichina and hippiechick:
There's a new Miyazaki animated movie out now in Japan based on the classic children's story "The Borrowers" (Japanese title "Karigurashi no Arrietty"), which I've seen and highly recommend.
No need to wait for an English translation if you're in Japan; you might as well use your limited chance to see the movie now on the big screen, for which there's no substitute for a Miyazaki movie, and get the DVD later in English if you like.
Also, when in Japan, in the Mitaka area of Tokyo don't miss the Ghibli Museum, which highlights Miyazaki's life works with Studio Ghibli.
http://www.ghibli-museum.jp/en/
Have fun!
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donna_birichina
Location: in the middle Gender:
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Posted:
May 10, 2010 - 2:32pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:
thanks- I popped it in my amazon basket for my next order.
You won't be disappointed. I promise!
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MrsHobieJoe
Location: somewhere in Europe Gender:
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May 10, 2010 - 2:22pm |
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donna_birichina wrote: Oh, it's a great movie! Just the right amount of danger and scariness for my little ones, with great messages (I can't believe I just typed that....) and really good English voice work by Emily Mortimer and Christian Bale. We watch more often than we probably should. One of the few things my boy (3) and my girl (6) can agree on.
thanks- I popped it in my amazon basket for my next order.
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donna_birichina
Location: in the middle Gender:
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May 10, 2010 - 2:16pm |
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MrsHobieJoe wrote:
I didn't know they'd made a film about the moving castle. My kids might enjoy that. I have the book but it'll be a couple of years before junior is ready to read it.
Oh, it's a great movie! Just the right amount of danger and scariness for my little ones, with great messages (I can't believe I just typed that....) and really good English voice work by Emily Mortimer and Christian Bale. We watch more often than we probably should. One of the few things my boy (3) and my girl (6) can agree on.
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MrsHobieJoe
Location: somewhere in Europe Gender:
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May 10, 2010 - 2:10pm |
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donna_birichina wrote: We're in no hurry, and we're willing to pay someone back for whatever they can find. Right now, our favorites are Ponyo and Totoro, although Sophie and Howl (and his moving castle) are family favorites as well. PM coming!
I didn't know they'd made a film about the moving castle. My kids might enjoy that. I have the book but it'll be a couple of years before junior is ready to read it.
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