Can we invite intelligent thought and discourse back into our lives? We are all connected and should be looking out for each other and our Mother Earth. What can we bring to the table? Rage and rhetoric? No thanks! -kp

From the moment we sit down at the table and put a piece of bread in our mouths, we see that we are in the world and cannot be otherwise than in it, until the day we die. The question, then, is not to speculate about how we are to contact the world - as if we were somehow in outer space - but how to validate our relationship, give it a fully honest and human significance, and make it truly productive and worthwhile for our world. Thomas Merton