Comments on: Learning, Levees, and Loss http://www.kathrynjennex.com/learning-levees-and-loss/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:44:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Peter Mis http://www.kathrynjennex.com/learning-levees-and-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Peter Mis Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:12:30 +0000 http://www.kathrynjennex.com/?p=230#comment-217 Kathryn, Thank you for keeping this tragedy in the foreground. I can feel the sincerity and longing in your words. Out of respect for the victims, I hope that we as a nation and a government have learned lessons that will enable us to better handle events like this in the future to minimize the human losses. Regarding loss, we all fail to respect the fragility of human life. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed, but we live like it is. Learning to respect such fragility is a life changing paradigm shift that will make compassion and love the cornerstones of your entire being. Thanks for your beautiful post. Sign me up as one who would love to read more of your posts soon! Peter Kathryn,

Thank you for keeping this tragedy in the foreground. I can feel the sincerity and longing in your words. Out of respect for the victims, I hope that we as a nation and a government have learned lessons that will enable us to better handle events like this in the future to minimize the human losses.

Regarding loss, we all fail to respect the fragility of human life. Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed, but we live like it is. Learning to respect such fragility is a life changing paradigm shift that will make compassion and love the cornerstones of your entire being.

Thanks for your beautiful post. Sign me up as one who would love to read more of your posts soon!

Peter

]]> By: Hal http://www.kathrynjennex.com/learning-levees-and-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Hal Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:11:37 +0000 http://www.kathrynjennex.com/?p=230#comment-216 Great article, thank you Kathryn. Few people know that a number of virulently bigoted rednecks used the occasion of Katrina's aftermath for their own brand of ethnic cleansing check this http://google.ca/search?as_epq=Katrina+murders :( Great article, thank you Kathryn.

Few people know that a number of virulently bigoted rednecks used the occasion of Katrina’s aftermath for their own brand of ethnic cleansing check this http://google.ca/search?as_epq=Katrina+murders :(

]]> By: Henie http://www.kathrynjennex.com/learning-levees-and-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Henie Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:13:04 +0000 http://www.kathrynjennex.com/?p=230#comment-215 Kathryn... How easily we forget the losses...and how slow we are in the repair... Thank you for writing this post so that we can remember, we can reflect and most importantly, act...especially in memory of all those lost and for all those who still remain in need. Kathryn…

How easily we forget the losses…and how slow we are in the repair…

Thank you for writing this post so that we can remember, we can reflect and most importantly, act…especially in memory of all those lost and for all those who still remain in need.

]]> By: Morwen http://www.kathrynjennex.com/learning-levees-and-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Morwen Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:43:18 +0000 http://www.kathrynjennex.com/?p=230#comment-214 Katherine, I've been Blogging on New Orleans and the recovery since the Flood. I have massive ammounts of pertinant links on my Blog. Thanks for wanting to know more. Blessings! Katherine, I’ve been Blogging on New Orleans and the recovery since the Flood. I have massive ammounts of pertinant links on my Blog.

Thanks for wanting to know more. Blessings!

]]> By: Catherine http://www.kathrynjennex.com/learning-levees-and-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Catherine Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:22:13 +0000 http://www.kathrynjennex.com/?p=230#comment-213 Thank you for the acknowledgement. Yes, New Orleans is my hometown. I love my city. My mother's home flooded after the 17th Street Canal Levees FAILED. It is important to support the rebuilding of the coastal wetlands and to build the same FLOOD PROTECTION SYSTEM that Holland has built which protects their entire country. Please speak with Sandy Rosenthal of www.levees.org who is doing some wonderful advocacy on behalf of the city of New Orleans. It is a Gem and we cannot afford to lose it. Senator Landrieu has visited Holland and the difference is that Holland makes Flood Protection it's number one priority for it's country and it's people, The USA does NOT...this must Change. I don't think the media has been helpful in showing the true picture of this Engineering Disaster Thank you for the acknowledgement. Yes, New Orleans is my hometown. I love my city. My mother’s home flooded after the 17th Street Canal Levees FAILED.
It is important to support the rebuilding of the coastal wetlands and to build the same FLOOD PROTECTION SYSTEM that Holland has built which protects their entire country. Please speak with Sandy Rosenthal of http://www.levees.org who is doing some wonderful advocacy on behalf of the city of New Orleans. It is a Gem and we cannot afford to lose it. Senator Landrieu has visited Holland and the difference is that Holland makes Flood Protection it’s number one priority for it’s country and it’s people, The USA does NOT…this must Change.
I don’t think the media has been helpful in showing the true picture of this Engineering Disaster

]]> By: Christa M. Miller http://www.kathrynjennex.com/learning-levees-and-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Christa M. Miller Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:22:35 +0000 http://www.kathrynjennex.com/?p=230#comment-212 Kathryn, I'm glad you exhort readers to remember a time of personal loss and use it to empathize with the people of New Orleans. Not only do we get caught up in trying not to focus on our losses; we also get caught up in worrying whether we will offend those whose losses are fresher. We're told, for instance, never to say "I know how you feel," because as individuals, we all experience loss differently. Yet the raw pain and anger and "why?" are near-universal. The trick is in figuring out how to channel it towards making a new human connection between the individuals. Kathryn, I’m glad you exhort readers to remember a time of personal loss and use it to empathize with the people of New Orleans. Not only do we get caught up in trying not to focus on our losses; we also get caught up in worrying whether we will offend those whose losses are fresher. We’re told, for instance, never to say “I know how you feel,” because as individuals, we all experience loss differently. Yet the raw pain and anger and “why?” are near-universal. The trick is in figuring out how to channel it towards making a new human connection between the individuals.

]]> By: Sophmom http://www.kathrynjennex.com/learning-levees-and-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Sophmom Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:21:22 +0000 http://www.kathrynjennex.com/?p=230#comment-211 In the discussion on this Blogher post, I left a comment that's chocked full of links to Just The Facts items about The Flood. It's a good start. I'm at work, or I would replicate it here. I'll check back later if I get a chance. http://www.blogher.com/fourth-anniversary-katrina-and-well-still-here#comment_form In the discussion on this Blogher post, I left a comment that’s chocked full of links to Just The Facts items about The Flood. It’s a good start. I’m at work, or I would replicate it here. I’ll check back later if I get a chance.

http://www.blogher.com/fourth-anniversary-katrina-and-well-still-here#comment_form

]]> By: Loki http://www.kathrynjennex.com/learning-levees-and-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Loki Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:47:56 +0000 http://www.kathrynjennex.com/?p=230#comment-210 Hey Katherine, thanks for the lovely post. One of the main things that is really painful to those left in the wake of the levee failure is the feeling that outside f the flood zone no one really cares anymore. Posts from "the outside world" are most appreciated as a result. You'll probably see a variety of New Orleans bloggers stopping by as I have shared the link with them. Its a wild and wooley bunch, but also a group that will answer any questions you or your readers might pose. Thank you fr remembering New Orleans while most of America was wrapped up in the fact that it was Micheal Jackson's birthday. You are a jewel. (Transparency: I'm the friend on Facebook and also the admin for the HumidCity team blog.) Hey Katherine, thanks for the lovely post. One of the main things that is really painful to those left in the wake of the levee failure is the feeling that outside f the flood zone no one really cares anymore. Posts from “the outside world” are most appreciated as a result.

You’ll probably see a variety of New Orleans bloggers stopping by as I have shared the link with them. Its a wild and wooley bunch, but also a group that will answer any questions you or your readers might pose.

Thank you fr remembering New Orleans while most of America was wrapped up in the fact that it was Micheal Jackson’s birthday. You are a jewel.

(Transparency: I’m the friend on Facebook and also the admin for the HumidCity team blog.)

]]> By: Ian Gordon http://www.kathrynjennex.com/learning-levees-and-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Ian Gordon Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:39:57 +0000 http://www.kathrynjennex.com/?p=230#comment-209 Kathryn, I appreciate your bringing attention to this. I went to college in New Orleans, and later returned to live for many years after. I look back at my time in New Orleans as some the best years of my life. When the tragic events surrounding Katrina occurred, I remember feeling shock, then anger, then profound sadness. I realized right away that what was occurring would change the city forever. It was the local residents that made the city what it was. I knew how poor most were (I think when I lived there more than half lived below the poverty line) so I knew that if they were sent to live somewhere else, most would not return. Unfortunately I was right. The city has lost a bit of its soul, the part that makes it special. If you have ever been there, you have to feel that loss. Thanks for remembering. Kathryn,
I appreciate your bringing attention to this. I went to college in New Orleans, and later returned to live for many years after. I look back at my time in New Orleans as some the best years of my life. When the tragic events surrounding Katrina occurred, I remember feeling shock, then anger, then profound sadness.

I realized right away that what was occurring would change the city forever. It was the local residents that made the city what it was. I knew how poor most were (I think when I lived there more than half lived below the poverty line) so I knew that if they were sent to live somewhere else, most would not return. Unfortunately I was right. The city has lost a bit of its soul, the part that makes it special. If you have ever been there, you have to feel that loss. Thanks for remembering.

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