Day late, dollar short.
Jan. 21st, 2010 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meejYesterday I spent much of the morning writing my sister a letter to be posted today. It was long and ... well, much of what I say in letters I can't say on the phone (and only in some cases because I can't pronounce the word I want). It can be summed up as "I love you; I'm proud of you", and I'd wanted her to have it to take with her on her mission to Haiti.
She was supposed to leave on Monday the 25th, but since the second quake hit they had to ramp up their travel times, and she left suddenly last night, instead, an hour after I read her email saying her plans had changed.
I am distraught over the devastation in Haiti, but the horror is too big to stab me, it can only pound me flat and leave me numb. Bee is smaller, more manageable, and there are little hooks in my gut that she's heading into a natural disaster (albeit one where the worst has already happened).
She said she'll be there "for the duration", which is neither a helpful phrase nor a reassuring one; my pop told me that it's going to be for at least four weeks, right now, and may be longer depending on what they can do and whether people ship them supplies.
This is a tad bit emo, obviously, and self-indulgent worry. But she is the only sister I have!
It helps that she texted me from the airport and told me a dead monkey joke.
She was supposed to leave on Monday the 25th, but since the second quake hit they had to ramp up their travel times, and she left suddenly last night, instead, an hour after I read her email saying her plans had changed.
I am distraught over the devastation in Haiti, but the horror is too big to stab me, it can only pound me flat and leave me numb. Bee is smaller, more manageable, and there are little hooks in my gut that she's heading into a natural disaster (albeit one where the worst has already happened).
She said she'll be there "for the duration", which is neither a helpful phrase nor a reassuring one; my pop told me that it's going to be for at least four weeks, right now, and may be longer depending on what they can do and whether people ship them supplies.
This is a tad bit emo, obviously, and self-indulgent worry. But she is the only sister I have!
It helps that she texted me from the airport and told me a dead monkey joke.
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Date: 2010-01-21 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-21 11:24 pm (UTC)(Z is for Zillah, who drank too much gin.)
Thank you for hugs and reassurances! Bee is indeed a hardcore badass, she will just lOOK at an earthquake and inform it that it's not impressing anyone.
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Date: 2010-01-22 02:04 am (UTC)I hug you and send so much love. <3