I'm still trying to collect my thoughts from Port au Prince last week.  The sights, sounds, smells and experiences evoked very powerful and sometimes conflicting emotions and perceptions.

However, coming across this picture and article in the "Daily Mail" about the cholera epidemic in Haiti last night stopped me cold.  They capture very well the nightmarish reality which exists 90 minutes from Miami, 7 hours from Boston, and cut through any of the ambivalence felt about the nagging question of why it is that things over there remain so bad more than 10 months after the earthquake.

Those who cannot imagine a situation in which passers by casually step around a young woman lying naked outside a hospital as if she were just another pile of garbage would do well to linger over this and the other photos in the article, and consider just how fortunate we are.

I'll post more later once I have better collected my thoughts.

***UPDATE***  A friend, Nicholas Lobel-Weiss, who works at the General Hospital, outside which this picture was taken, wrote the following: