Reflections

“If everything is connected to everything else, then everyone is ultimately responsible for everything.

“Through me course wide rivers and in me rise tall mountains.

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains and rivers know the secret.

“Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

“This is my hope: that the recognition of shared fate might cause us to act as if shared fate is the reality that in fact it is.

Well, a bubble can’t last long, and a raindrop, what’s a raindrop for but to join the throng?

As Malcolm X put it, “When we change the ‘I’ for the ‘We,’ even Illness becomes Wellness.