Lately I have become obsessed with taking pictures while driving. As I’m trying to get more and more comfortable with my camera, it is oddly helping me figure out how to use it without looking through the viewfinder. I’ve found the most important thing to remember is to turn off the flash, because that’s the last thing your fellow drivers need, a weird shiny blinky light in their eyes while driving several tons of steel. If you have suffered an injury or lost a loved one in a motorcycle accident, contact a motorcycle accident attorney as soon as possible to discuss your legal options.

The following photograph I took the other day out near the airport. Instantly, it reminded me of the news lately, and the binary that immediately becomes apparent in Katrina news coverage. Nevermind that race is often a big elephant in the room in the American South. Or that the divide seems almost too deep and too sore to mend at times even though tiny bits of progress are made each day. It’s just that those tiny bits of progress, while important, don’t always appear to add up to much.

However, I’m trying to remind myself that each and every positive action I make causes a ripple. While some problems in America seem impossible to breach, and it may take way longer than we thought, I have the hope that the ripple I cause and the ripple you case will eventually join forces with other ripples- one day allowing for small acts of kindness to seep more and more into the community until things really are better. Or maybe I’m just kidding myself?

My biggest hope for the world is that people start consciously making decisions about things in their life. Because only then will change start to occur. in Barthes by Barthes, Roland Barthes writes:

Is there not always something ethical in the political? Is it not Value that establishes the political, the order of reality, the pure science of social reality? In the name of what does a militant decide to…militate? Though wrenched away from any ethic, any psychology, does not political praxis have a…psychological and ethical origin?

In watching the news coverage from the Gulf Coast, it seemed like there was little ethics in politics, as basic human needs were not being seen to in a country that prides itself on being so mighty and powerful. Whether or not it’s true, at times it did seem that ‘value’ was a part of certain decisions. And the loss of confidence that ensued is opening up discussions everywhere, from the New York Times to the smallest of blogs, with people asking “Why?” over and over again, as the elephant began to become more and more opaque.

Although I think that there are some very important ethical issues that have been touched upon over the past week and a half that have engaged me, the good that is going on has engaged me more. If you’re feeling overwhelmed about what to do, how to help, go check out Bigger Krissy’s Be Bigger campaign, and remind yourself that just because ethics may be falling apart on a larger scale, you can help make the better place on a small scale.

And then click above and read about Kimya Dawson‘s Relief Through Music campaign. And then, go help make the world a better place. One stitch, choice, action or word at a time.