When Words Aren't Enough
A week ago Wednesday I sat in the comfort and safety of my living room in Texas and watched videos and read reports of tornadoes ripping through my home state. The images were awful. The fear I could read in my twitter feed was heartbreaking. And I couldn't do anything about it except sit there and watch it all as it was happening. I wasn't living it like my friends were. I wasn't going to have to deal with the aftermath. The next day I tried to write about what happened the day before but it just felt trivial and patronizing so I deleted the post. I read through twitter and Facebook and other news reports of death and destruction and everything else just felt secondary. I wanted to help but I didn't know how. So I stayed out of it. It was one of those moments in life where it felt like the rest of the world should stop and take notice of what had happened. But here in Austin, Texas, life went on unaffected because few people here were directly effected by th