Walking Backwards In A Strange Land

For awhile now, I've wondered if some of us are living in an authentically parallel universe. How else to explain the madness that seems to reign as well as rain? I would talk about such things with somebody other than myself if everyone I know didn't have far more pressing and painfully concrete things to discuss. Knowing so many people who are truly dedicated to service work of one kind or another can be overwhelming at a time like this. Katrina's aftermath has been pulling on a lot of resources and that in turn generates a lot of email and internalized reflection. Otherwise, please bear with me while I figure out what I'm actually doing with this blog program ...