What to say <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />. I know a buddhist monk from Sri Lanka whos entire home village is wiped out. Western news services quote the casualty numbers and their inevitable rise. Attention is given to the number of american and european dead and missing, small yet somehow more important ( the 3000 innocents at WTC included a similar international list.) I was at a restaurant listening to the T.V. coverage. Some idiot commented they were probably all muslims anyway. I 'accidentally' sent a cherry coke and ice tidal wave down his shirt. A hawaiian family here for Christmas told me about their warning system. Tidal waves are to the islands what earthquakes are here. It's cold and raining here tonight. I gave my last emergency car blanket and some food to a transient who was obviously hypothermic and drove him to a safer shelter. Events across the world make me look around at my own little corner.