Well, I For One Will Hope For A Miracle…
By Mitch Berg
Just about the last news I personally needed, as daughter Bun gets ready for her first solo air trip; an Air France jet is feared lost at sea, possibly due to a lightning strike:
An Air France passenger jet traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared after its electrical systems malfunctioned during a storm with heavy turbulence on Sunday evening, and officials said Monday that a search had begun for the wreckage near a small archipelago off the Brazilian coast.
Prayers, hopes and wishes, karmic imprecations, or pleas to the implacable laws of physics as your worldview may dictate for (one hopes) the passengers and (one fears) their families.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:51 pm
The odd are in your favor. Don’t sweat the small things!
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:43 pm
A dear friend’s best friend, a young woman I knew only slightly myself, was on that flight with her boyfriend. They were going to celebrate her 29th birthday in the Seychelles Islands, where he was going to propose to her. It’s an oddly small world these days, when a Minnesota Norskie knows a Brazilian beauty by virtue of mutual friendship with a stunning Colombian living in New York City, and feel pain from such a distant tragedy.