New Year

And so another year comes to a close, not just a year but to borrow Auden’s September 1, 1939 ‘a low, dishonest decade.’ We are in appalling trouble with the grim inequality, ecocide and frightening disconnection. But as offensive as these situations are we need to grasp them with both hands, to not be ‘uncertain and afraid’ but to be determined to change. Challenges are the flipside to solutions and where we currently stand provides the keys to embrace new values and resolve to build a better world. A world of higher values; one that reveres all life;