Me,The Mall, and Haiti

As I walked through a nearby mall yesterday to find Chow's Asian Bistro---hungry and weary, a friend and I had worked steadily all afternoon on a major new project from The Potato Museum---we were gently accosted by retailers flogging mineral makeup, cell phone covers and other essentials of modern life. 

But what really caught my eye was  one woman hovering over another, with what appeared to be needle and thread in her hands. The lying down customer seemed to be getting her teeth flossed, right there, out in the open corridor. But no!  The client was having her eyebrows plucked and shaped. 

"Oh, yes," said the enthusiastic retailer, a young woman with dark brows. "This method really works!"

Major industries have risen up specifically to do for people the intimate body care they once used to do for themselves---eyebrow-plucking, nail filing and polishing, toenail clipping-- and employment is a good thing, yes indeedy. Still, while images of Haitians buried under plaster and pipe and dust and dreck and the indifference of their government roil about in many heads,  how can anyone bother to get one's eyebrows sheared off with thread in public in a mall?

Silly me. Life must go on!  My friend and I ate our fill of spicy eggplant, rice, and a green bean, chicken and chiles dish, plus two Chinese beers.

I returned home to see an email from Foodie Spouse about a woman trapped in the rubble of a bank, saved after five days of vigilance and effort on her husband's part, and steady hope and resolve on hers.  As her face entered the light,  she threw back her head and sang.

Comments

[Foodie]

And $$??

[genevieve]

Yes, and life does go on...
While we're here and the Haitians are there, we're receiving thousands of messages about living and about relationships. We're experiencing their suffering and their love and emotions of all kinds (anger, frustration, joy from finding a loved one alive) through the media. With all that, if we can't be in Haiti to help physically, we can do it the old-fashioned way - through prayer, and in a more current way, through energetic thought healing.