Hope in the face of despair

I'm not sure why, but I really loved this article on Slate today.

In fact, there have been quite a few stories about Katrina's survivors that I've heard recently that have really amazed me. In one, a woman likens the catastrophe in New Orleans to the Great Flood. She believed that there was too much "nonsense" going on in the city and that God sent the hurricane to wipe it clean. She believed that being evacuated was a new lease on life.

In that same vein, another woman was evacuated with her six children and only the clothes on their backs. Her response? She was happy to have had an opportunity to leave a neighborhood filled with drugs and violence. She didn't have a single worldly possession, but had the optimistic attitude that this was an opportunity to begin a better life for her children.

Isn't that amazing?