Radical Anniversary

It may make sense to assume that a radical change in context calls for a radical reevaluation and reorientation of one's practiced, if unexamined, lifestyle. Natural disasters and terrorism in what is now a global economic community consume the headlines, but we pray that paying the bills, shuttling kids back and forth to school, and surviving that last and longest eighth hour of work will not be long in again becoming our primary worries.
It's difficult enough to change an annoying habit like biting one's nails, much less contemplate a different sort of lifestyle for a different sort of time. And it's not like the alternatives are out there waiting to be chosen among. We have a complex, reflective, creative, experimental task ahead of us.
Time is not our friend in this process. We need more conversations, and we need more people participating in the conversations.