April 2010

There are moments when I wonder how any of us go on! How do we stave off despair when suffering bombards us daily in the news? The earthquakes and mudslides, the wars, massacres, butchery and beatings, discord and dissension, the genocides and suicides, the fractured lives and crushed, lost hopes. And this doesn’t count the ordinary anguish of people living, in the words of Thoreau, “lives of quiet desperation.”