Evil Reporter Chick, 2008 Fellow Moni Basu’s blog, contains the following poignant post from her recent trip to Haiti after the devastating earthquake.
Now with CNN.com, Basu worked previously for many years for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While there, she wrote the eight-part, award-winning series, “Chaplain Turner’s War.”
In the blog post, she writes about driver Jean Marie Cleophat:
“One day, as we drove back down to central Port-au-Prince on a winding hillside road, Mariort told me that reading was what sustained him through everything. He was upset that the library had collapsed and he could no longer check out books there. He liked history and philosophy. He read about Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin. He admired Mahatma Gandhi and asked me about my native India.
“It’s never too late to be what you might have been,” he said, quoting Gandhi.
“The past is behind you, learn from it,” Mariort continued. “The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here. Live it.”
