frying eggs

Although it looms large in my thoughts, I've found it difficult to write about New Orleans, the hurricane, the devastation, the governmental screwups except in the most oblique ways. It just hurt too much, and writing seemed useless.
Here's Andrei Codrescu (a Baton Rouge-based writer who's now got a lot of houseguests) in the New York Times Magazine:

"Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.The best way to deal with it is to fry eggs for refugees."