Folks, I have only been on for limited amounts of time each day as the home improvement project and Nutcracker rehearsals have continued to fill every spare moment I've had the past couple of weeks. 

At home, the TV is usually blaring in the background, and true to myself, it is usually on CNN.  So while home it has not escaped my notice about the horrendous reign of terror going on in Mumbai, India.  What DID go over my head, like a flight of geese, was the possibility that one of our members here may have been right there in the middle of what essentially is a war zone, and under fire himself.

So you can imagine my shock when I logged on and read Rama Sedtu's blog entries over the last couple of days.

Surviving something like that must be a real exercise in gratitude for simply being alive!

If you haven't done so already, please go to his blog and check out the details.   And I'm sure he can use your prayers, good thoughts, and comments.   And let us all breathe a sigh of relief that he is safe at home now.