Like many with deep connections to Japan I have struggled with how to confront the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and ongoing nuclear fears. It is a part of Japan I have never visited, so the images are both familiar and foreign. It has also impacted, and continues to impact, the lives of those I know in Tokyo in ongoing and unfolding ways.
I find myself easily distracted by the images more than anything else. The destruction that is so haunting and vivid.
More than anything I hope for recovery and a return to normalcy (or at least whatever normal will become when the events become memory).
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