Only Temporary

Noi showed me some video earlier today of one of the big waves generated through the earthquake that hit Sulawesi, Indonesia late on Friday. When she read out the magnitude of the quake, 7.5, it was awfully easy to imagine the scale of the casualties likely to have been inflicted. Following the recent deaths on Lombok this all seems particularly cruel, but there's nothing inherently malicious, of course, with regard to the indifferent power of the natural world.

Whatever sense of security any of us possesses can only be illusory and temporary - fearfully so.