On Being in The United States

There is so much going on in the world right now, and I think of that Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times".  It is interesting to be in these times, and to experience the possibilities contrasted with fixed juxtapositions of greed, hate and the like.  It makes me continue to go in and refine what would be the best for the future, and let go of those places in myself that are attached to old structures of greed and hate.  Do my clothes reflect this anywhere?  Does my house?  My car?  Do my habits reflect this anywhere? To realize that greed and hate have taken us as a country to the brink of destruction is hard to look at, because we are so conditioned by commercials and the like to think that everything we do which is connected to greed and hate is just fine.  It is time to wake up and realize that the greed and hate reality didn't do much for the world of lasting value.