Here is a cartoon about one of my many hobby horses, division where there could be unity. This cartoonist humorously but pointedly puts on the table our current national…and species-wide death-knell. If we never find the humility to appreciate the wisdom of T.S. Eliot who told us we, “are united by the strife which divided them” or, divides “us” in this occasion, we are doomed. As always I am again frustrated with everyone who sees the world differently than I, when I’m again trying to convince them of the ‘right way” of seeing things. With that last statement I am wryly and ironically admitting that I have the same problem!

With this bit of wisdom that is always teasing me I can admit that it applies everywhere, even with my frustration and anger about the obstinate conservatism of Trump and his minions. Yes, even with that spiritual malady present in our world we all must realize the obstinacy of what seems to us as our “right” way of seeing things. I am learning to see, understand, and experience the extent to which I “hunker down” with my literary and erudite grasp of that fiction we call “reality” and fail to look deeper and see a “Reality” which undergirds the daily life of us all. I am so old-fashioned to call it “god”; and at this moment I’m so free of that intellectual and philosophical rigor that has characterized my life that I will not try to define that term!