Hello?

     Did you know that I am your neighbour?  I have a couple of kids, one of whom is learning disabled and a husband who works too much. We have money troubles like everyone else and struggle with a lot of the same things that you struggle with: the HST, the environment, the cost of living, our health, our wealth, what will become of where we live. Will we dance at our children’s weddings, are they getting the best education, where is all that garbage going, will the Canucks win? In the big scheme of things of course these are all small concerns, but they seem important to us now, in this moment and therefore they are significant. Our search for meaning has always been a unifying human issue. Whether we are smart or unskilled, young or old, hippies or rednecks, we all care about what we care about--- me too. I suppose the issue becomes, what do we then do with that desire to ask the big questions and to get some even bigger answers. For some of us there is no time for navel gazing--- sometimes it’s just difficult to get some time alone in the shower. And answers are not a simple thing. There are too many variables; so much uncertainty. There is no black and white. This is what I know: you can’t know it all and if you say that you do, you’re either a liar or my father.