Rarely can I write about a topic that affects every single reader of CNA. But this topic, Hurricane Katrina, and the suffering it blew into our own Gulf region, manages to influence every person involved in the business of crafts. Maybe your store isn't under water; maybe your warehouse still stands intact; maybe your home still offers you shelter; maybe you don't have a loved one sleeping in a structure made for sports events; maybe your town isn't struggling to absorb displaced children into already crowded schools; maybe life assumes its normal pace. But you, shopowner, manufacturer, designer, publisher, CEO, sales associate, publicist, have been humbled by a force of nature that rivals the too-recent tsunami in its power to disrupt security born of the fragile belief that modern technology, modern medicine, ancient prayer and ritual can keep life generally on track.
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