I assume everyone this part of the world is just so happy the sun is out. Not quite, but we feel the warmth already --- after a week of strong downpour from the skies. Up to this moment there are still plenty of communities in dire straights: houses washed away, muddy indoors, all clothes wet, and just so much cleaning up to do --- not to mention the worst of it.
Compassion is displayed in the countless anonymous ones who gave of themselves: their time, their resources, their food, their hearts...to help alleviate somehow the conditions many have found themselves in after the typhoon's whipping.
On both the receiving and giving end we find
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
