Found at Kym’s, who highlighted a quote that I think is wonderful:

To suffer is to survive. To bear it with grace and courage is to live. – Ganeson

MSNBC – In Sri Lanka, a new wave of pain

Here’s another quote; this disaster is very difficult to fully comprehend:

“To talk about psychological needs when you’ve got thousands of people using one toilet in a refugee camp — it’s absurd,” says Ganesan, who goes by one name as is common here, talking above the din in the office where he is coordinating medical supplies for refugees. “It’s not what a doctor should do.”

There is a call from the office. A young man has just brought in his brother. The brother has hallucinations. He beats up his elderly parents. The family has spent a fortune on traditional cures, none of which has worked.

So in the aftermath of one of the worst modern natural disasters, the young man has traveled by boat, bus and car for eight hours, all the way up the shattered coast of Sri Lanka, to get his brother to Batticaloa.

Ganesan puts the world’s biggest crisis on hold. He pulls up a chair and opens a notebook and speaks softly to the brother. He begins to make notes.

What is helping the many, if you cannot help but one?