When sadness creeps in...

The oil spill in the gulf is really getting me down. I just watched a youtube video by a woman who lives down there and has had a first hand experience of the whole situation from behind the scenes at BP. It doesn't sound good. I mean it never has. But, really can no one come up with a solution? Is this just what we are going to deal with? Are these the "end days"? Maybe that is part of my sadness more than anything... that we are destroying this earth everyday. The ocean life is dying and people near the gulf are being affected by the air quality. Children are getting sick and who knows what the long term effects will be. No one really knows. It is just dismal. And right now as I write this my cousin just told me that there is a storm coming and that means that the ships that are in the ocean are going to have to leave what they are doing and it could halt relief efforts for up to two weeks at a time. OYE!
The sadness also gets worse when I think of the people whose livelyhoods have been affected by the oil spill. They had been hit hard a few years ago by disasters like Katrina and things had finally been getting back to "normal" and this happens and there seems to be no HOPE. Hope, the one thing I strive to have everyday for a better future. But, these hard working people are losing their hope. They are taking it out on their families, their wives and children are getting the brunt of their frustration and anger. Some are committing suicide and this is only the beginning.
So, what do we do? What can we do? All I can think to do right now is to pray. To send light and love to those in pain. To ask that the animals and ocean life that are hurting and dying because of this thing humans did for our own selfish needs be forgiven. That the birds and fish go peacefully without too much pain. And most of all that we learn something from this horrible disaster. That the earth is not going to heal from everything we do to it. That we have to take better care of the place we live, of the things we have.
One thing we can do is donate hair. Donate time. Help somehow. We can donate hair so that they can make boons to collect the oil. 

http://www.matteroftrust.org/programs/hairmatsinfo.html