A touching article and educational video

Today I need to get back to work editing the soon-past-deadline dictionary of tea ceremony that I have been chipping away at for the last few months.  Raining in Tokyo, but wind is from the West, blowing the radioactivity out to sea (we won't be eating local fish for a while...).

I've already share both these links on Facebook, but for those who are not in my friends list, I'm adding them here.

First a very touching opinion piece by Paul Blustein in the Washington Post last Thursday, which echoes my feelings exactly.

Second, a Japanese animation that explains the reactor emergency to children, more clearly and comprehensibly than all the talking heads on CNN, as one friend commented.  Note that this could be somewhat disturbing for children in the potty training stage.

It's nice to know someone is thinking of children and their feelings and making an effort to explain the situation to them including the "worst case scenario". It will indeed be terrible for the people of Fukushima...