Sorrow

I've been rather purposefully avoiding writing anything about the tsunami. What on earth could I write? I'm just devastated by every piece of news that I read, by the death toll that keeps climbing, by the sheer enormity of the impact. I have a very close friend who was in Thailand last summer, in the area that got hit. What if this had happened then? I used to work with a guy from Sri Lanka who might have lost friends and family. I don't even know how to find out. I know for sure of a friend of a friend of a friend who is missing. I am not a religious person, but I will "pray" in my own way, for everybody who has been affected by this tragedy.