{"id":970,"date":"2010-07-15T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/?p=970"},"modified":"2010-07-15T09:29:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T13:29:51","slug":"what-a-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/umpteenhorizons.org\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/15\/what-a-people\/","title":{"rendered":"What a People!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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The gulf coast is not just home for tragedies and crises. It\u2019s the home of incredible people! In 2004 numerous hurricanes struck Florida and the northern gulf coast including Hurricane Ivan. Other areas suffered greatly too particularly with Hurricane Jeanne. 2005 brought more destruction with numerous communities all along the coast from Central America to United States and throughout the Caribbean being devastated from severe hurricanes including Dennis, Emily, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. With barely a breather if that, rough economic times came our way and are indeed affecting the whole world. And now we\u2019re in month three of the oil disaster.<\/p>\n

Today we are shocked at the inept care that was given to our environment and shocked at the long-term environmental destruction of our home and the home of so many other creatures too. Yet positive energy is the focus of so many people! \u201cI love Dauphin Island!\u201d \u201cI love Bayou La Batre!\u201d \u201cI love Louisiana!\u201d \u201cI love Mississippi!\u201d \u201cI love my community!\u201d \u201cI care about you!\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s help one another!\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s take care of our environment!\u201d We are a people who have kept coming back! We are a people who are still coming back today!<\/p>\n

With confidence, even after all this and with whatever will come in the future, be it natural or unnatural disasters, I know that we will continue to live positively. There\u2019s an incredible faith inside all of us, a faith that creates an unconquerable, spirited synergy between us, a faith that is lived out in innumerable acts of kindness, friendship, and generous initiative.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Volunteer update<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a new volunteer program being offered on the gulf coast called “peer listening.” Peer listening is a community service that proved valuable in the wake of the Exxon Valdez disaster. Training workshops are currently being conducted in Alabama and Mississippi coastal communities. According to the program\u2019s website<\/a> (which contains lots of helpful information), \u201cpeer listening is a type of support that occurs when people provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other.\u201d Pictured above is a training workshop that was held in Bayou La Batre yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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