For so very long now I've become apathetic to the world around me. It seems, the lower I sink into my own personal abyss of pain and the deeper I wallow in my own personal hell, I become numb to the pain of those around me...
Today was different.
I'm a member of a little bloggy-love group called SITS. See that badge over there on the side --->, Yeah, that pink and brown one...go click it and hook yourself up with some comment love and discover some new blogs.
Lately I've become quite a neglectful SITSa. I just haven't had it in me to go out and read and comment and be part of the whole thing...or the blogosphere in general. Today I actually opened the daily email from SITS and went to the site they recommended.
It was all about Tuesday.
I can't explain what happened afterward. I read and immediately the tears began. An hour later I found myself on the floor, cheeks soaked with salty tears, my throat sore, my head pounding like so many tribal drums, and my heart...my heart so very heavy with feeling for this beautiful little girl who is leaving the hospital to be at home with her family. This will be her final journey home.
Tuesday is two.
She is only two.
I don't know this gorgeous, bald, little two year old girl. I'd never even heard about her until this morning. I do know that she reached across the miles and ripped my cold, insensitive heart out of my chest, shook it...and touched it, and woke something up inside me.
I have a favor to ask all of you who read Barking Mad. Go out to Tuesday's family's home on the web and leave them a kind word, a prayer; let them know they're in your thoughts. Even if, like me, you aren't quite sure what you believe in, just send them whatever positive thoughts you have. Peace...love...comfort. Whatever you can. They need to be wrapped in love and comfort right now.
If you're a college freshman in Syracuse, go.
If you're a grandma in some small town with a silly name in so Cal, go.
If you're a doting auntie and uncle in the UK, go.
If you're a group of girls on the 2nd floor of a college dorm in a sleepy Maine town, reading the blog of one of your classmates moms, go.
If you're a blogger who devotes her time and talent to shredding others on the internet, in the name of "keepin' it real", go.
If you're a DJ in Washinton D.C., go.
If you're a busy mom with two kids and an insane dog, go.
If you're a computer geek in Rancho Cucamonga, go.
If you're a pre-occupied man in Saudi Arabia who loves to sit and stare at blog posts about spiders, go.
If you have a heart...a soul...some spare compassion...go!
Individually our efforts might seem so small, even insignificant. But together, I really believe we can do so much. The impact we make as a whole is incredible.
Please, please envelope this family and this beautiful little girl in love and comfort.
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