“How the f**k we gonna live?” – Louisiana fishermen mourn
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This is an important post by Micheal Whitney over at Firedoglake. His dispatches are daily. Worth the read, and videos like this one:
{I spent a heartbreaking three hours with Louisiana fishermen Jim and Angel. They work and live on a mid-size shrimping boat docked on Grand Isle, Louisiana. They’ve been through Hurricanes Katrina, Gustav, and Ike. They’ve been through more hardships than many of us can imagine. Each time, they’ve got through because they had the one thing on which they could always count: the water and its bounty. And now it’s gone.
Watch Jim and Angel describe how the oil disaster affects them. This is just four minutes of much more footage, including some time on their boat to come tomorrow. Their story is heartbreaking, and truly representative of the pain many feel here in Grand Isle and across Louisiana and the Gulf.
Where do they go from here? No one knows.}
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Heart breaking video, and this couple is only one of so very many.
I’m sure they’ll be fine once BP cuts them a check for fifty bucks.
Wahhhhh!!!!! It is sad. Life is sad. Now they might have to do something else. Woe is me. Wahhhhhhh!!!
Their family is intact and no one is dying of cancer or heart disease. Give me a f*****g break!!!!!!!!!!
It can get a lot worse. Lose a child. That is a lot worse. Lose your mother and father. That is a lot worse. Lose your sister or your brother. Lose all you love and you lose your very soul. Tell me about it!!!
So stop the whining. Figure it out and be prepared to move on. My heart breaks for you but not as much as it breaks for my friend who just lost his 18-year old daughter in a car accident. Not nearly as much.
I’m so sorry for your friends and your loss Mike. Please accept my heartfelt condolences.
Thanks Jess. Thanks so much. But it is more complicated I think. I tire of those who think there is no hope when they have all they need right next to them. I’m not sure I even understand what I mean 🙂
I know the exact place you are coming from. I’ve been there and done that one, at a very young age, with a friend after my mom passing shortly after my dad. All any person can really do is control what they can and let the rest of it just go, as best as it can be done IMO. Otherwise you(generic) just get into a neverending circle of bitterness, and it’s not really worth it. It just does not mean anything in the grand scheme of things to tire ourselves out, because those people we tire of won’t be stressing about us(generic). There are always going to be people have it worse than us and people that have it better. It is the nature of the life cycle and it sucks the big one for the most part, till it doesn’t anymore. I mean this sincerely, if you don’t want to hear this, you can go ahead and delete this post, I don’t mind.
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You are so right on every count Jess. My heart is just sad for my friend’s loss and here I end up whining about it, the very thing I am condemning. Thanks again and have a wonderful day 🙂
Well this is just an observer, but I don’t see this as whining at all. Remember one man’s whine, is another man’s vent about whatever is troubling them. Grief takes hold of us in very strange ways, till we gain the upper hand over it.
Damn. Easy for us to say how bad it is, but we don’t REALLY know. People don’t really know till it’s them.
With all the loss and nasty in the world, I am grateful Oso, bro, that I still walk with my heart and mind open.
Most of the time, with as little co-dependency as possible.
Kindness is the result of learning and growth… empathy plays it’s part in that.