Sad and anxious few days

Thanks, New York Times: Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority nation of 140 million, is among the world’s poorest countries and is prone to disasters, natural and man-made. That sounds soooo positive.

I am really glad things have been winding down here... but sad to see how many people died. It is kind of horrifying that so many deaths could be caused so quickly. Sometimes the violence felt very far away (it's not, really, but traffic in Dhaka means that it takes 45 minutes to an hour to get to the area where this took place, which is probably about four miles away), but then other times it was brought closer to home by the American Center and Embassy staff whose friends and relatives died.

Sad.

In cheerier news, I hereby congratulate myself on my 215th post (since I forgot to do so on the occasion of my 200th). Go me!