People from across the country have asked recently how we are doing since the flood. The most usual question runs something like this: “How are things, there? You about all back in place?” This question while well meant, demonstrates a profound lack of understanding of what floods do. This particular series of rains that created [...]
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Remember Iowa’s Deep Waters – The Need Continues
Posted in Flood 2008 Recovery, Floods of 2008 on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fourth Of July
Posted in Around Home, Flood 2008 Recovery, Fourth of July on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.by Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (1771-1845) From: ‘A Word A Day’: “Find your niche (in this crisis) and do it well.” CJ Zachariasen Read the front page of the Gazetteonline for a terrific story of how the employees [...]
One Little Candle
Posted in bunnies, Flood 2008 Recovery, wildlife on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“It is better to light just one little candle than to stumble in the dark.” This first line from a song that a college friend taught me years ago can aptly apply to Iowans as we recover from floods. (Please remember, too, this is happening all up and down the Mississippi River drainage.) Deep thanks [...]
"When Bad Things Happen to Good People"
Posted in Flood 2008 Recovery, Help on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Rabbi Harold Kushner’s book provides some insight and comfort in this difficult time. Too, a handout from Kathleen Horan, current board president of the Indian Creek Nature Center, and a professional in human service fields. In chapter four of Kushner’s book, “No Exceptions for Nice People,” he writes to the mis-notion of “acts of [...]
Triage to Long-Term Care to Recovery and Staggering Statistics
Posted in Flood 2008 Recovery on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A difference exists between triage and long-term care and steps to recovery. The American Red Cross and individual chapters are experts at “triage” care. Immediate needs. According to Red Cross volunteer workers the Novellino family from NJ they are alerted to crises, and then get a call to fly out to certain areas in need. [...]
The Work Of…
Posted in Flood 2008 Recovery on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Singing The Living Tradition, the Unitarian-Universalist hymnal and Readings book has a reading(# 615) from Christmas time that makes me think of the times now before us in Iowa, and parts south along the Mississippi River that have flooded and eroded so severely. “The Work of Christmas”“When the song of angels is stilled,“When the star [...]
Eeewwh!
Posted in Flood 2008 Recovery on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are tired. Bone tired. But, there is humor as we grub out the mess. There is certain, justified anger too, when the entourage of three military ‘copters thundered overhead with “dignitaries” inside. Not once, not twice, not three times…six times the helicopters circled overhead past the water treatment plant, back up the river and [...]
Fly Over Floods
Posted in development, Flood 2008 Recovery on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday, June 18th, 2008, Jim Seifert with Merrill-Lynch, flew Marion along with journalists Dawn and Dan over the Cedar and Iowa River drainages down to Burlington, IA, on the Mississippi River. The view was spectacular and disheartening. It is clear to see why more than 1/3 of Iowa’s 99 counties have been declared “disaster [...]
Flood Recovery II
Posted in Flood 2008 Recovery, Floods of 2008 on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part.” Hal Borland, This Hill, This Valley Naturalist, Margaret Wolter, wrote this prophetic quote on the white board at the Nature Center to thank volunteers for their help with programs this spring [...]
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