I’m struggling to work. I stare at the words and feel dried up inside. Is it the depressing news? Nothing but doom and gloom. The Haiti disaster is overwhelming all by itself. I did read an uplifting post on Sarah’s blog ( Sarah Davies, Greenhouse literary Agency). She met Miep Gies, the woman who saved Anne Frank’s diary, along with Anne’s father and step-sister.
Can you imagine meeting those people? I’d hope if I did, I’d have the good sense to keep my mouth shut and listen. What can you say in their presence that would be worth missing their wisdom? When the Haitians who endured this earthquake grow old, what will they teach us? Will someone keep a diary that transcends the suffering and promises humanity will endure?
Anne didn’t survive but her writing carries her message into eternity. She wrote as a young girl, dreaming about a future she knew she might not see. She wrote as a writer, chronicling her family’s experience in that horrible war. Her words offer us a chance to be better people.
