Wednesday Wishes

This is Wednesday leaning out of her cat tree. She may look like just your average gray tabby cat, but she has many skills. Most of these skills, she uses for The Good. Okay, 'most' might be a slight exaggeration. Wednesday is a good little kitty, though, at heart. She loves her family, loves her sisters, loves annoying those sisters and she also loves to grant wishes. Every Wednesday morning, I will rub the side of the cat house and summon our magic cat!

My Wednesday Wishes for the week:


1) The Brave 50 - those brave workers who chose to stay behind knowing that the amount of radiation would be a lethal dose. My wish is that their lives are not in vain. They were courageous enough to do this - to sacrifice themselves to save the lives of countless others. May they get the situation under control, cool down the reactor. It would be nice if they could do it in a length of time that would not kill them, but if it does, let it work. (On a side note: even if it doesn't work, they will still be heroes in my eyes!)

2) Stop the Shaking - I can't imagine how nervewracking all those aftershocks are. I've been through earthquakes. The biggest one was in 1994 and my apartment building dropped into the underground carport. My mom had come up for a visit and street parking was hard to find so I had parked on the street thinking to leave mom my space under the building. When mom got there, she found a space out front! How fortunate is that? The earthquake wasn't anywhere near Japan's level. But the aftershocks? Oh, they were so unsettling. You would start to relax and one would hit. I had to move in with my brother as my building was condemned. We didn't sleep much and when we did, it was all in groups. I remember his living room crammed with sleeping bags and people. An aftershock hit and we all woke up, some of the girls screaming. Drew didn't even move from his place on the floor. He reached his arm out over his girlfriend and said in a loud, firm and comforting voice to everyone else, "Relax. It's just an aftershock." That was the first time in a long time that we all went back to sleep almost right away. His demeanor comforted us. I hope everyone has a Drew in Japan. As the shaking stops, people will be able to sleep more, relax more and then the country will draw up together and rebuild. But it's hard to rebuild on small increments of sleep with the ground still shaking.

3) The Rescuers - This must be both heartbreaking and uplifting. The range of emotions these wonderful people go through is extreme and happens all day long for however many days they are pulling people out of the rubble, helping people medically. Give them the strength - emotionally as well as physically - to do their job.

All my wishes, as well as my thoughts and prayers go out to the Japanese this week. May those who are missing loved ones find them. May those who have lost everything find comfort. May everyone get the much needed supplies. All I can do is pray and cry with them. And hope. Always hope.

What about you - what are your wishes for Wednesday?