Local singer-songwriter Glen Roethel’s song, "Namaste, ‘" is featured in a powerful multi-media exhibit, “Children Speak: Tsunami,” by photojournalist Arlene Atherton that runs through Feb. 15 at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library Museum in College Station, Texas. "Namaste" means "I greet the spirit in you." Atherton explains her joy in discovering the song because it "unifies the Buddhist traditions shared by Sri Lanka and Thailand and reflects the Christian and Islam understanding of our spiritual nature, that we have a sacred soul." "Namaste,” which appears on Roethel’s 2004 independent release, “From Beginning To End," is the finale to the Kids Drawing Project.

For release soon, a book containing a multi-media DVD of the exhibit aims to bring to a wider audience the artwork, stories and perspectives of child survivors of a record-breaking tsunami that swept the coast of Southeast Asia in Dec. 2004.  The hope is to heighten awareness and support for the 11 countries devastated by the tsunami that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and displaced more than two-million people, while revealing the resilience of the human spirit, according to Atherton.  Learn more at http://www.childrenspeaktsunami.org.