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From: Margaret Lorusso <mlorusso>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:42:27 -0400
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- Norma,
I had the same idea that you did - food, clothing and shelter first - until I though about it.
Books, especially for the younger children, would make the time in shelters more pleasant. It would bring some normalcy back to their lives.
Margaret LoRusso Harrison Public Library New York
From: Norma Jean <nsawicki at nyc.rr.com> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:01:14 -0500
>Unlike Marilyn Palowitch, I would be embarrassed to turn up in a shelter
>with a book, expecting a story to give comfort to people who are in dire
>need of water, food, medical supplies, medical attention, a bath, clean
>clothes, dead bodies in view, and others in the process of dying. Or, to
>offer pen and pencils so they can tell their courageous stories. I do not
>know the demographics of the people whose lives were deeply affected and/ or
>destroyed by the mud slide in Venezuela but deep in my bones I believe if
>Katrina had hit a middle/upper middle class area, rescue efforts would have
>been faster and better. If I were in New Orleans, etc., and someone turned
>up with a book to read to me I would..............Like some novels for
>kids, people of a different class can be romantic about folk who live
>below/near the poverty line and are caught in horrific circumstances...a
>desperation and suffering that is translated to "courage " which then
>becomes easier to witness, and romanticize. Me? I think anyone interested in
>reading to kids in shelters should head right down to Louisiana with an
>armful of terrific books and be prepared for a major learning curve. Sorry
>to be" political" but so many missteps, and stupidity has occurred that
>absolutely nothing is more important than being clear headed about
>priorities which the mayor of New Orleans has articulated in a powerful and
>poignant way. Necessities now, story hour later. Norma Jean
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Received on Tue 06 Sep 2005 02:42:27 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:42:27 -0400
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- Norma,
I had the same idea that you did - food, clothing and shelter first - until I though about it.
Books, especially for the younger children, would make the time in shelters more pleasant. It would bring some normalcy back to their lives.
Margaret LoRusso Harrison Public Library New York
From: Norma Jean <nsawicki at nyc.rr.com> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:01:14 -0500
>Unlike Marilyn Palowitch, I would be embarrassed to turn up in a shelter
>with a book, expecting a story to give comfort to people who are in dire
>need of water, food, medical supplies, medical attention, a bath, clean
>clothes, dead bodies in view, and others in the process of dying. Or, to
>offer pen and pencils so they can tell their courageous stories. I do not
>know the demographics of the people whose lives were deeply affected and/ or
>destroyed by the mud slide in Venezuela but deep in my bones I believe if
>Katrina had hit a middle/upper middle class area, rescue efforts would have
>been faster and better. If I were in New Orleans, etc., and someone turned
>up with a book to read to me I would..............Like some novels for
>kids, people of a different class can be romantic about folk who live
>below/near the poverty line and are caught in horrific circumstances...a
>desperation and suffering that is translated to "courage " which then
>becomes easier to witness, and romanticize. Me? I think anyone interested in
>reading to kids in shelters should head right down to Louisiana with an
>armful of terrific books and be prepared for a major learning curve. Sorry
>to be" political" but so many missteps, and stupidity has occurred that
>absolutely nothing is more important than being clear headed about
>priorities which the mayor of New Orleans has articulated in a powerful and
>poignant way. Necessities now, story hour later. Norma Jean
>_______________________________________________
>CCBC-Net mailing list
>CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
>http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net
>
Received on Tue 06 Sep 2005 02:42:27 PM CDT
