Reality Check, war in congo

I like to present myself with moments of clarity in not only how big the world is around me, but how incredibly lucky my little piece of it so often is.

I am sitting in a chair at my office that massages my back in shiatsu form with gentle heat. I have a fresh made cup of coffe, an americano to be exact with 2 packets of Stevia, a non calorie natural sweetener. My feet are up and I am in sandals, jeans and a now perfectly comfortable 2 year old gap sweater. I rode to the office on my Harley this morning with a macbook pro in my bag and the sun shining on me both metaphorically and literally here in the West Coast.

In contrast, a war rages on in the Congo where people are suffering fates that go beyond my comprehension or imagination at times. Read the following links about the war and what the people victimized by it are going through.

On the banks of the River Congo, a thousand kilometres upstream from the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, a young woman lay in a dugout canoe, writhing in pain and bleeding profusely.

The War in The Congo:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7696139.stm

Congo’s Silent Harvest of Death:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7554195.stm