This morning an offshore oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, forcing 13 workers to abandon the rig. All 13 workers are accounted for, and 1 is reported injured, according to the U
Thank you for letting me understand homelessness, living without power, without television, without cool air in the heat. Thank you for letting me understand hunger, the pleasure of dry clean clothes and the relief of place to sleep.
Thank you for letting me understand the deep and overwhelming sadness when forces, beyond our personal control, take the loved, the familiar, the usual.
Gulfport native and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey wrote a moving op-ed in the NY Times today, "Our Loss, Through The Eye of The Storm." Here's an excerpt:
By Sue Sturgis. Crossposted from 
Gulfport native and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey wrote a moving op-ed in the NY Times today, "
