Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones.

Once more we return to continue our peregrinations and conversation.

I'd written a long, dithyrambic, and discursive commentary on change, but circumstances change, and I'm shelving that commentary for a few days.

I hear you now, "O, do stop grizzling on, Brian, what in the name of Mike are you going to write about now?"

Très simple, mes enfants.

Blog authors have decided that to-day would be devoted to helping raise awareness of the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. To that end, I have added a link to the American Red Cross. The site is hosted by Yahoo! to help alleviate the delays as people open their wallets and purses to donate money in order to give aid to the people of New Orleans, Biloxi, and other cities and towns that were in the path of Katrina and are now lying shattered. Go here to donate. The minimum donation through this link is ten dollars.

Folks, normally, I wouldn't try to solicit money from you. I get enough phone calls from The Citizens' Alliance for the Eradication of Litterbuggery and divers emails, begging letters, and suchlike for the groups such as the Concerned Public for the Preservation of Goshawks that I presume that you do as well and there are only so many calls for money that one can entertain.

However, this is a different situation. Now you have an opportunity to assuage any feelings of guilt you may have for turning down the homeless person who asked you for spare change or a smoke. You can work off a bit of bad karma (if you believe such things) with a few clicks and a couple of keystrokes. There is also the feeling of having done well by a stranger in need.

What is ten dollars? I know that there are times for many of us when ten dollars is a dear sum, but think on how it can help if enough people donate.