No Degrees of Separation

We are connected. Witness that oppressive regimes and governments try to cut off the internet when their people are revolting in order to keep the people separated. And witness how quickly we learn first hand of events happening so far away. A FB friend from my time in VA writes that he knows a woman in the next town whose daughter lives on a beach in Japan - and texts that she is fine because she was not at home when the quake and tsunami hit. I knew that yesterday morning.

How small the world seems when the tsunami in Japan destroys a harbor in Crescent Beach, CA. We can no longer ask why we should worry about events happening half way around the globe. We should worry, be concerned, be compassionate because the people effected for all practical purposes are us. We are they. We know of their pain and grief and fears through connectivity and our country is touched by storms that crush their shores and shift their land. "Our" and "their" are used very loosely these days. We are all on the big blue marble and we are responsible for each other. ~ blessings