SHIFTING TO A NEW PARADIGM?

 As the New Year was waiting in the wings, I met a friend for lunch.  Our conversation turned to an assessment of this past year's events.

We spoke of the advances made in science and technology in 2012; of the incredible fete of people to use and create the instrument known as Marscuriosity that now skips across Mars like a child in a playground.

We spoke of the inability of people and nations to respect each other; of the fears, man- made and real, that seemed to keep us from resolving conflict without doing further damage to people or communities on this Planet.

We spoke of reverence for so much of what we knew as acceptable communal behavior in the past; of whether or not people of all ages and cultures really understood the great, historical shift in paradigm we are a  part of and entering.

Neither of us ventured any answers. But we did seem to think the New Year gives people and nations the opportunity to meet and discuss issues and take actions that may have seemed improbable in the past. Would that will be so!