Act Locally

Minnesota will be receiving three to five thousand of the people forced from their homes by Katrina. Below are two somewhat random links; I didn't link to anything that requires registration.

The hotline in the first story was only active over the holiday weekend, so it's a bit difficult to figure out how to donate the things these people need. Apparently one can call the United Way and ask. The main thing that gets mentioned over and over again is, unsurprisingly, winter clothes. I keep feeling that it's adding insult to injury to transport people from the urban south to the rural north at the beginning of autumn. If the opposite had happened to me, it might be the last straw. I don't mean Minnesota isn't doing the right thing, just that sometimes the right thing is only as right as one can get and not as right as it should be.

Anyway, I'm off to rummage in the closet and then probably take a bunch of stuff to the dry cleaner's. We're still a few weeks away from frost.

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=106151

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/12571989.htm


I hope to get back to grousing about writing and cooing over cats and birds and leaves soon.

P.