The more I travel, the more I feel both the interconnectedness and apartness of various parts of the world and its people. Cultures are so vastly different that people and their ways seem incredibly far apart -- sometimes exotic and appealing, sometimes unfamiliar and threatening. Yet with air travel and global communications, we are linked more tightly than ever before. I fervently hope that we can learn to treat our planet and each other more gently. Headlines are scary these days, but if we all could live our lives a little more like this cute wombat suggests at
http://www.globalcommunity.org/flash/wombat.shtml, the world would be a better, calmer place -- and we could revel in trying to understand each others' differences and not feel threatened by them. And the Earth itself would be cleaner and more beautiful.
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I'm a 4th grade teacher, and this was so great that I played it for my class. Thank you for adding it to your interesting blog.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was standing in line at the airport over Thanksgiving break, I was thinking about what your wrote about airport security.