It's been almost two months since I last posted. But it definitely doesn't seem that long! The summer has, unfortunately, flown by and I can't believe that kids are getting ready to head back to school in the next few days (this weekend is North Carolina's tax-free weekend in preparation for the new school year).
And I realized, sadly, that this also means that it has been almost two months since the oil leak in the Gulf (the word "leak" doesn't really do it justice, does it?). It amazes me that it can take some of the brightest minds in the industry over two months to fix a problem, but at least it appears to be fixed.
As my last post suggested, there definitely has been blood. The BP CEO has been ousted (to a certain degree, at least), thousands of people on the Gulf have been affected, lawsuits are pending, the wildlife has been damaged. I just hope that we don't get over-stimulated and over-saturated with the BP news to the point where we just don't care any more. Time is a great healer.
But we need some wounds to still smart so we remember how we got hurt in the first place.
