a second attempt at processing.

My brain is full.

My heart is saturated.

My eyes are overwhelmed.

but somehow I can't stop watching videos on cnn.com

It's one of those things where you want to stop watching, but you can't.

I talked with my dad on the phone tonight. My dad is a rock.

Tonight he was weak. Spent. Empty.

People rely on him for answers. They come to him for help.

Now he has no answers. Today he doesn't have a way to help.

He was telling me about the interviews he's doing.

There were a couple for newspapers today.

Tomorrow he's getting called by some news stations.

Then there's Samaritan's Purse, and he's working on a press release with one of Indiana's senators.

He's being interviewed about the very thing that's draining the life from him.

He's forced to think about it. Talk about it. Provide insight on it.

All day long.

No wonder he's emotionless.

On a more practical level, a lot of people are asking about my family's friends in Haiti.

Most of the people we know are safe, although there are still several people we've yet to hear from.

(but no news is good news, right?)

Our hospital doesn't seem to be damaged, aside from relatively minor things such as shelving being overturned, things falling off the walls, and equipment being damaged.

We haven't heard from any of our hospital's staff, although we've heard that the neighborhoods where they live were completely demolished.

And I think that's all I know.

I'm still not sure how to understand it all.