The owner of a ceramic shop checks his damaged wares following the massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Tokyo. via.

This photo really brings the human dimension home, doesn’t it? I cannot fathom what it must be like to have so many lives destroyed, not only the loss of lives themselves (for which I am seeing conflicting reports, as some media are reporting many more casualties than the few dozen mentioned earlier today), but also the sum of everything that makes our lives, well, what they are.

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