This shared space

Right now someone is laughing. Right now someone is crying. A baby is born, an old person dies. A man is traveling down a road, lonely and missing his wife. A truck is being driven to it's destination full of goods from China, goods for Chinese people.

An actor is at a party chatting up a sweet young thing. An actress is trying to fall asleep because she opens on Friday. Somewhere someone rich is in a comfortable bed. Somewhere someone is sleeping on the floor.

The sun is up, the sun has long since set. Someone is making their deadline, someone is looking down at the surface of the ocean and wondering what the fish must be thinking about. A bear is rolling over in it's sleep, a dog is barking at shadows.

This is not to say that there is vast differences between the perception of these realities and what is actually taking place but to say that you can only wonder who truly takes all of this in to decide what kind of food they will consume in the morning.

I love this world, warts and all because, frankly, it is the only world I have. It is filled with all, truly, that one can imagine, even if only in the imagination of our collective thoughts.

I feel good about the world, about prospects, about coming together, connecting and, one day, shouting down those that wish to take advantage of what we don't know. I call this time the "Great Transition," if I hadn't mentioned it before. It is a time when a lot of us will become aware of how we are treated, aware of who we are and how, ultimately, we decide to share this world in common. We will, no longer, assume this and that, become more curious and question our doubts about the intentions of others.

It will be a painful process, nonetheless. We are correcting for centuries of bad behavior, for those that wield power but choose not to share the truth. We are correcting our poor habits and choices, the assumptions we made that steered us down paths, in hindsight, we would not venture again.

But let us not forget that we are not in this alone. That we have the love of our fellow creatures and the shared hope of faith that our hard work will pay of. A grand wool has been lifted from our eyes and we must cherish this for only from it can we hope to be reborn and enlightened.

And so I seek to spread my message of the future, with those that choose to listen, understand and work toward actual change. May we all open our minds to the new way, the better way, because we can only live in the here and now.

Peace.