It’s difficult to imagine not just the environmental but the personal devastation and loss the people of Haiti are suffering. Home is a powerful and precious reality so many of us are blessed with that we take it for granted. I know my home is comfortingly familiar after having been gone for nearly 2 weeks. Chilly and drafty, filled with chores and to-do lists a mile long but its colors and furnishings, light and space fit me as well as my old faded, red hoody sweatshirt to which I have an inexplicable but devoted attachment.
I can’t imagine losing my home, let alone my family and loved ones and any semblance of my life as I know it. Our homes are supposed to protect us, shelter us from the outside world and hold close all that we value and cherish. It’s where we stash family pictures, our favorite books and that well-loved, faded to pink ratty sweatshirt. Along with peace, my hope for the people of Haiti is that they might find “home” in their new circumstances, and that it might be soon.
This link to SEED came across my inbox this morning. From their website:
Providing temporary relief for victims of hurricanes and earthquakes, SEED turns unused shipping containers into starter homes for emergency situations. The project was already underway when the recent tragedy hit Haiti, leading the group of Clemson University architecture professors (who’ve been developing it since the devastating Hurricane Katrina) behind it to work to implement their plan sooner. Strong enough to withstand hurricanes or earthquakes, the containers make robust instant homes and guarantee some degree of safety from more activity, such as aftershocks.
I am both moved and inspired by this sort of creative thinking and I wanted to share it. So many hearts are broken; but this feels strangely like hope. Go here to help. Please pass this around so that those of us with so much may help heal those who have lost so much. Thank you.
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Brilliant! So much help is needed for these precious people.
And your website looks fantastic.