Definitions of success, progress must change

When you look, if you only see the color of my skin, we miss an opportunity to learn from each other.

If we look at each other and only see the clothing, the car, the flag, the symbol on the necklace, we are both missing a maybe once-in-a-lifetime moment to learn from each other.

Did you ever notice, sometimes, when you’re in the checkout line and all of a sudden, when you, the customer, and the checkout person disappear and there’s simply two people connecting. Have you noticed that when we wear masks (not the invisible ones), we start to look into each other’s eyes?

We are discovering as a community what is most important and how fragile, precious and big it all is. We may be seeing ahead and how we’ll be pulling more and more together to help us all through the coming times.

We will all finally and fully realize that a healthy, vibrant community of humans, with a healthy and vibrant economy, rests on the health and vibrancy of the land, the waters, the air, and all the wildlife, critters, plants and microbes.

It rests on people that get along and engage in healthy lifestyles and vocations. We are selling the future of our grandchildren and their children for a short term, “gotta make money now.” We are stealing from the rest of creation. To turn this around, we must change our definitions of success and progress.

Rev. Bodhi Be

Haiku

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