In honor of and remembrance for those killed and injured by the Sendai earthquake and tsunami.
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This is my interpretation of ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ a woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai. Here is the original:
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Calamity is the great leveler. It did not care if the person was good or bad, rich or poor, old or young. It didn’t care if they were driving a fancy car or a beat up one. It didn’t care if the person was a office worker with a smart phone or a farmer with a iron plow.
Calamity only knew to level. No morality, no ethics, no prayer, no wish, no hope dissuaded it from it’s mission.
But calamity isn’t a match for humanity. Humanity builds. It keeps what is good about being leveled, the lack of pretense and judgment, and builds from there. It does respond to hopes, wishes, prayers, ethics, morality. It does care.
Humanity always beat Calamity. Always.
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Drawing by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote is an interpretation of ‘Public Calamity is a Great Leveler’ by Edmund Burke
