Fall Update

The equinox has come, a half moon plus is waxing, and 2011 rumbles like the falls just ahead in a narrowing canyon river.  Every few months, newly revised and daunting reports of polar melt rates hit the news, and yet we're still locked up in the nuclear adversary issue.  In some ways so much has changed, at least technologically. Yet, in the most fundamental way, we really need a paradigm shift on the planet.  Impossible?  If necessity is truly the mother of invention, as the saying goes, then maybe the needs that are rising right now from such unprecedented climate change, will inspire not only the creativity to cope, but the global unity as well, needed to implement those solutions.   Exciting times!  Then again, if life truly is a miracle, I wonder if there really is any such thing as "ordinary times."  There IS a lot of cool stuff happening, in spite of the abundance of gloom and doom, and all the shifts I see and read about, that herald the shift from fossil fuel based energy to other natural sustainable sources, are gardens of hope.