Piping Up

I’ve been laid low for the past few days after finally catching Mr. Random’s bad cold.

I’ve spent most of the time intermittently sleeping and watching all of the episodes of “Heroes” online – it’s quite an absorbing show, I was pleasantly surprised. Watching 6 episodes in a row also made it a lot easier to pick up on different connections. I guess this is what people experience when they get the DVDs for shows that they didn’t watch the first time, like “Buffy” or “24.” I’m not a big TV person, some I still clueless about a lot of shows – I don’t even watch American Idol – I just keep up with shows by reading the recaps in the paper, on blogs and on Television without Pity – it’s sometimes more entertaining that way . . .

I have a bigger post to write about my visit on Saturday to the Holocaust Museum – my friend, J, and I were there for over 5 hours and it was an overwhelming experience – one that takes a while to process the enormity of it all. It is one thing to read about what happened, but it is another to see and hear what went on . . . and to know how much or how little could have stopped everything from happening. It angered me, learning how much our country knew about what was going on and how our government did nothing to help – it even put roadblocks in the way of saving more people . . . to learn about all of the actions that lead up to the “final solution” and how many citizens just let it happen and how many were complicit . . . it all raises so many questions in my brain . . . and a resolve to do what I can to make others aware so that it doesn’t happen again . . . even though it IS happening again . . . what CAN one person do? . . .

All I know is that in my last post I talked about the need to speak up . . . and going to the museum on Saturday cemented that resolve to speak up about these seemingly piddly little work things . . .

For if you don’t start speaking up about the little things, how will one ever be able to stand up an speak up about the really big things that need attention?