Yellow Bag Thoughts--Haiti

The cover of the Feb 8 New Yorker magazine I am reading on a flight from Albuquerque to Tampa, pictures pampered dogs in city outerwear, all leashed, standing unhappily in the snow. Inside the mag, a reporter writes that in Haiti early food aid provided by the Dominican Republic consisted of rations to feed a family for a day---” rice, cornmeal, beans, sardines and Vienna sausages.” The food was contained in yellow plastic bags, most likely similar to those stuffed in pockets by city-dwellers out walking their pets, at the ready to capture the canine droppings none of us likes to step in on sidewalks cleared of snow.