this week's "newsweek" article on haiti literally brought me to tears.

the photos hit hard.

since i don't have tv or cable, my photo sources are the net and magazines...

i feel helpless.
it makes a lot of things i'm dealing with seem irrelevant,
and a lot of the things around me... meaningless.
and so i pray...
i can't pray enough....

[all photos are from the january 25 issue of "newsweek"]

"roughly 10% of the city's houses were destroyed, leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless"

{left} "a girl reacts to the death of her 14-year-old brother"
{right} "an injured girl sleeps alongside her mother and brother at a makeshift trauma center"

"a man picks his way among corpses outside the capital's overflowing morgue"

so speechless...

i bought my husband this shirt for his birthday today.

 i'm sure it is the only thing he would really want.

you can buy one here.

designed by mike fretto.

100% of proceeds will be donated to partners in health!

buy one for your mother, brother, father, sister, friend, loved one, roommate, tutor, house cleaner, barista, teacher, nurse, mentor, niece, nephew, neighbor, pastor, pen pal, patient, photographer, dog, doctor, physical therapist, dentist ;)...

or a stranger.

{spotted t-shirt fundraiser on wide open spaces, simplesong, indigo bunting}

happy birthday to the love of my life, an amazingly beautiful and admirable man.

love you josh.

<3.

j.

p.s. in preps for a haiti relief benefit concert next week, i may be m.i.a.

will update you soon on my musical endeavors!