distraction

Dan Barry's poignant story of a leprosy colony in Hawaii sat above the fold on the National page of the New York Times yesterday. It's title, "A Story of Exile and Union Few Are Left to Tell", grabbed me. The first line of the essay is this: "The peace of morning comes to the small village of famous isolation called Kalaupapa". With the newspaper in my hands, the dark of early morning outside my window, and the quiet and stillness of a yet busy world far away from me, I was struck with the power of Barry's storytelling.