It's certainly easy for me to forget how good, comfortable my life is. Recently, I have been grumbling about still having to scrape the frost from my windshield in the morning, acting shamelessly moody with my family, and feeling stressed about sleeping too little and eating too much.  However, it was the moment I turned on the radio to hear about the news from Japan that I knew things with me really weren't so bad at all.

Last Friday's unimaginable events have left the world in shock and sadness. I hope that our empathy can somehow help even in the slightest of ways.