A Good Word!

Many of the fishing vessels along the coast have the word PREPARE painted on their sides. I thought initially that this might be a reminder to be ready for the likelihood of another tsunami, but it turns out that PREPARE is actually an organization that has organized and provided fishing vessels for the families that lost theirs when the tsunami hit. A family without a livelihood is a family that has (or quickly will have) more problems than just lack of work, so PREPARE works to source corporate and individual donors to supply boats and some other materials (such as tackle and netting) back to those who lost them. Still, the irony of the word and the fact that they were plastered onto the side of the livelihoods of those who suffered most from the tsunami was striking. PREPARE indeed!