Protected: The Beauty of Electronic Connections
Today I experienced palpably and movingly a benefit of the electronic connections that are possible. It was moving to the brink of tears to see the wonderful traffic jam of 2 lanes of traffic for blocks trying to get close to drop off goods at the Embassy of Haiti in Washington, DC in for emergency relief. It was great to be part of it, of course I wasn’t driving.
I received an email from a colleauge Friday the 15th that referenced and pasted in the contents of the Embassy webpage in which the National Organization for the Advancement of Haitians announced a survival kit guide and was requesting donations of specific goods to aid the victims of this week’s earthquake.
Here was something we could do in addition to contributing money, something very tangible and immediate to help with the unbelievable devastation that the earthquake inflicted on the Haitian people. I forwarded the email to offspring and some friends in my general neighborhood and to families in Silver Spring. Karin, my friend up the street replied almost immediately that we could go together to drop off donations. And she sent this on to her colleagues. And so on, continuing the network.
Karin had gone to Target this morning to pick up diapers for the effort, and she saw a number of people consulting the list of items on their PDAs. Wow. I don’t know how many people this reached or how quickly. I believe we witnessed hundreds of people responding today and the drop off continued for 5 hours.
This application of electronic connections is not unique. It is one more evidence of the caring and fellow feeling that most people possess and the sense of interconnectedness at a human level. Connecting on an electronic level allows us to mobilize our resources and realize our more fundamental connection.
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