My father forwarded this email to me today; as a friend of his had received this email from another surviving friend in Sendai. Make your own judgements and feel the love :)

Hello My Lovely Family and Friends,

First I want to thank you so very much for your concern for me. I am very touched. I also wish to apologize for a generic message to you all. But it seems the best way at the moment to get my message to you.

Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to 
have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even 
more worthy of that name, I am now staying at a friend’s home. We share 
supplies like water, food and a kerosene heater. We sleep lined up in one room, eat by candlelight, share stories. It is warm, friendly, and beautiful.

During the day we help each other clean up the mess in our homes. People sit in their cars, looking at news on their navigation screens, or line up to get drinking water when a source is open. If someone has water running in their home, they put out sign so people can come to fill up their jugs 
and buckets.

Utterly amazingly where I am there has been no looting, no pushing in 
lines. People leave their front door open, as it is safer when an 
earthquake strikes. People keep saying, “Oh, this is how it used to be in the old days when everyone helped one another.”

Quakes keep coming. Last night they struck about every 15 minutes. Sirens 
are constant and helicopters pass overhead often.

We got water for a few hours in our homes last night, and now it is for 
half a day. Electricity came on this afternoon. Gas has not yet come on. 

But all of this is by area. Some people have these things, others do not. 
No one has washed for several days. We feel grubby, but there are so much 
more important concerns than that for us now. I love this peeling away of 
non-essentials. Living fully on the level of instinct, of intuition, of caring, of what is needed for survival, not just of me, but of the entire group.

There are strange parallel universes happening. Houses a mess in some 
places, yet then a house with futons or laundry out drying in the sun. 

People lining up for water and food, and yet a few people out walking 
their dogs. All happening at the same time.

Other unexpected touches of beauty are first, the silence at night. No 
cars. No one out on the streets. And the heavens at night are scattered 
with stars. I usually can see about two, but now the whole sky is filled. 

The mountains are Sendai are solid and with the crisp air we can see them 
silhouetted against the sky magnificently.

And the Japanese themselves are so wonderful. I come back to my shack to 
check on it each day, now to send this e-mail since the electricity is on,
and I find food and water left in my entranceway. I have no idea from 
whom, but it is there. Old men in green hats go from door to door checking
to see if everyone is OK. People talk to complete strangers asking if they
need help. I see no signs of fear. Resignation, yes, but fear or panic, 
no.

They tell us we can expect aftershocks, and even other major quakes, for another month or more. And we are getting constant tremors, rolls, shaking, rumbling. I am blessed in that I live in a part of Sendai that is
a bit elevated, a bit more solid than other parts. So, so far this area is
better off than others. Last night my friend’s husband came in from the 
country, bringing food and water. Blessed again.

Somehow at this time I realize from direct experience that there is indeed
an enormous Cosmic evolutionary step that is occurring all over the world 
right at this moment. And somehow as I experience the events happening now
in Japan, I can feel my heart opening very wide. My brother asked me if I 
felt so small because of all that is happening. I don’t. Rather, I feel as
part of something happening that much larger than myself. This wave of 
birthing (worldwide) is hard, and yet magnificent.

Thank you again for your care and Love of me,

With Love in return, to you all,