Patrick Farrell, a photojournalist with The Miami-Herald, has won the Pulitzer Prize for his images of Haiti after this past year's hurricane season, which ravaged the tiny island again, and again, and again. (The photo accompanying this post is of a Haitian boy, but is not one of Farrell's photos.) You can view a slideshow of the award-winning images on the Herald website at A People In Despair. And please, please do. I started weeping after the first two photographs, and kept right on long after the slideshow had ended. Because as a mother viewing the slideshow with so many images of Haiti's children, mothers, pregnant women in so much pain, despair, and misery, it was impossible not to.
Farrell's photos inspired the following thoughts, rapid-fire:
I am not volunteering enough of my time to help those less fortunate.
I am not giving enough of my money to those in need.
I am so, so, so fortunate and blessed.
We all get wrapped up in the minutiae our own lives, and that's understandable--we're all human. And that's kind of the point--we're ALL human. Remember to reach out a helping hand and help other humans on a regular basis. Do it in your own way, whatever that may be: giving money, volunteering time, helping those in your neighborhood, or helping those far, far away.
But I have to say, if you aren't able to come up with an example of how you help those outside of your "inner circle" (your own family and friends), then perhaps you should take another look at Farrell's photographs, let the emotion overcome you, and DO SOMETHING.
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