Minnesota's ties pull in post-tsunami world

Twincities.com - Opinion

The change in history forced by the tsunami of Dec. 26 will reveal itself for as long as those alive now proceed through that history. The one month that seems so long and full of pain really is a crying blink in the eye of history. And, yes, other pressing needs call out for attention and sympathetic action by the human family.

A month after the tsunami, though, the primal connections and the knowledge that nature could visit wrath without warning almost anywhere tell us all that the power to make a difference lies simply in the power to act in the common good....