Go with the Flow

     Go with the flow.  To watch coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan brings new meaning to the phrase, "Go with the flow."
     As with carefully designed buildings in Japan, we try to brace ourselves to withstand upheaval--in all forms--in our lives.  Yet, we delude ourselves to we think that we may fortify ourselves sufficient to be impervious to quaking forces in our lives.
     We have much to learn from Japan--from her culture, her commitment to beauty.  Japan communicates her beauty in part through calligraphic characters.
     I see the tsunami's surreal destruction.  I wonder about the atomic bombs that hit Nagasaki, and Hiroshima in 1945.  I know that there are many differences between then and now.  The earthquake, and tsunami are forces of nature.  The atomic bombs were the result of human decisions, and the execution of those decisions.  In 1945, technological developments had not enabled us to watch destructive natural, and man-made forces.
    Television, much less CNN, was many years from invention.  By mere statistics, atomic bombs have a far greater impact on civilization--on human lives.  I wonder.  How are our perspectives--our decisions that flow from those decisions--affected by technology's views that come into our focus?
     Go with the flow?  With the quaking earth, and the crashing tsunami, where do we go?  Where do we look?  Where do we stand to stay safe, and yet, be moved by the crashing waves?