Why Greed?

Hello, avid readers.

Isn't spring in Baltimore just the loveliest? It smells great, it looks great... There are twenty shades of green in the yards across the street today, and I am a little dazzled by it.

Meanwhile, I am wandering through my daily mishmash of existential wonderings, and the ideas of Caring and Kindness keep popping up. More than usual, I mean. On my Twitter feed today, I received this quote: "It's never too late or too early to practice loving-kindness," -PEMA CHÖDRÖN. Last night, also on Twitter, a friend in Wisconsin was talking about the current trend of "wasicu." The term is a Native American one, from (I think) the Lakota Sioux, and it has layers upon layers of meaning. My friend meant it in its less benevolent aspect, as the person who is greedy, or the person who steals the fat.

The world is a little that way right now, and I am constantly surprised that most people seem so nonchalant about it.

So I challenge you, avid readers, to go forth and do something useful. Step outside your anxiety over finals, or the NHL playoffs, or whatever, and practice loving-kindess. Thwart wasicu. Be like Pema Chodron, or like Will Allen in Milwaukee (check him out at www.growingpower.org to see the potential we each hold within). And then make the world a fragment better. You get enough fragments, you get a mosaic, and the fragments are no longer debris.