Pictures from THE ATLANTIC, October 2016
Lest we forget, the location in our story refers to a very real place; Haiti, an island located next to the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola. In October of 2016 Haiti was -once again- devastated by a Hurricane, this time it was Matthew, a category 4 storm that gathered strength in the warm Caribbean waters before slamming into Haiti and Cuba.
We see these pictures and hear the stories on the news, but fail to become emotionally involved because it's happening in a place that feels so far away, so remote, so different from our way of life, that it may as well be on a different planet. But it's not really that far; not really that remote. Haiti is as close to us as Salt Lake City, Utah and these pictures remind us that the Haitian people go to work, go to school, go to church just like our neighbors and families.
Perhaps these pictures can inform the line "We are dancing just to stay alive"
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