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<-- my life, by webgoddesscathy --> :: Friday, December 31, 2004 :: Happy New Year to all my friends and family! May we all fulfill at least one more dream in our journey this year. May we live for the happiness of each other. :: Cathy 10:07 PM [+] :: 0 comments I can't believe that I was able to live under the ignorance of world events for so long. I think it was Tuesday night when I found out about the tsunami. I was shocked. Why hadn't I heard about it? I wanted to do something. I felt ridiculous, sitting there, surrounded by my mounds of gifts. My family sitting around the woodstove, our cats dozing lazily on our laps. Then I finally got back to my email and got a message from Jodi, who's living in Indonesia. She's fine, but asking for money. Quickly, so as to pay for some supplies that were to go out on some transport they'd secured. I'd missed my window. But I still wanted to do something. Sitting on Alex's couch with his laptop, watching TV, thinking about all of Oshawa being washed away, I went to the Canadian Red Cross site and donated. Then I went to Save the Children and wanted to donate there too. But what I really wanted was to DO something. To help. I'm still thinking about donating more. You should, too. If there was ever a time when it was needed, it's now. :: Cathy 10:07 AM [+] :: 0 comments :: Thursday, December 30, 2004 :: I am so lucky. Last night, I was driving home with my mom from Matt and Kendra's place, after their wonderful Christmas dinner, and I started realizing how lucky I am. Lucky to have such a wonderful family. Lucky to have time to spend with them. To have the friends I have. The life I have. Later, I sat in the dark in my parents' house and looked out the window at the quiet winter night and remembered where I was last year and remembered what a luxury I would have thought it to be doing all the things that I'd done all this week. My heart felt like it would break for being so full, as Mao curled up in my lap. And now I'm back in Toronto, after a day out skiing with my mom, still feeling the warm glow of the holidays. I don't want it to end. :: Cathy 4:15 PM [+] :: 0 comments
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