On August 8, I witnessed two worlds with totally different sentiment, and my heart covers two layers of impact, joy and sadness.
Here in the U.S. my 1st grandchild Avery was having her 1 year birthday party at a beautiful local park in Chino Hill in a picture-perfect weather. About 70 friends/realatives with their kids enjoyed a great event that celebrates Avery's arrival to our family for one year. She is really adorable in her cuteness, healthiness and a little cunningness. She is bringing the whole big family total excitement through her daily development of skills.
In the same time in our homeland Taiwan, our folks there were under a century-scale attack by floods that were formed by typhoon Morakot. They said the rainfall of the whole year was pouered down in just three days. Without much outlet the vicious torrents ran wild. The rivers were burdened with 80 times of water than normal. Tens of bridges broken, hundreds of houses toppled and swallowed by the torrent, and most shockingly was many villagers were buried alivemudslide that consists of stone, debris and water. This is a natural disaster that severely damaged Taiwan just like the 921 earthquake that shook the same island and kill thousands of civilians 10 years ago.
On the same day I have given out two kinds of money:
One for my grandchild as gift for her birthday. Another one as charity to suffering folks at the homeland. Both are my beloved objects to the most.
I believe Mother Nature is making her voice sound. Our environment is sick, and the weather is the messenger to give us a warning. We have to do something to fix our earth in order to keep the mother nature behave as nicely as what it has been before.
This is a nice post, daddy. I enjoyed it very much.
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