it's not life that matters but the journey...

I just sent this to some people via email, but I have to post the link to an amazing compilation of quotes from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - its compiled by Richard Roeper in the Chicago Sun Times

the full article link is here:  http://www.suntimes.com/output/roeper/cst-nws-roep12.html

some of the quotes I'd heard before, like Bush's comment:  "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job!"  as well as Anderson Cooper's tirade on CNN and Michael Moore's comments in his letter (I'm on his mailing list)  - but here's one I hadn't heard, which sums up the disaster pretty well (sadly): 

"The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in a St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, 'Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' [starting to cry] And he said, 'Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday.' And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night." -- Jefferson Parish president Aaron Broussard, Sept. 4, on NBC's "Meet the Press," in one of the defining media moments of all the hurricane coverage.