Humbling and warming

We're humbled by the courage and determination we're seeing in media coverage. Difficult to see everything that is unfolding, of course. We find ourselves in the midst of events that shake us to the core. We have friends we care deeply about who have survived local horrors, and on television we see places we know intimately that have been reduced to dust.

All of this sounds so adolescent. But if you know this wonderful country, you understand.

Canterbury, we weep. We really do.