The irony of health & wellness / obesity & demise is only one such comparison that makes me crack up...only it's not funny.  Here's another one.... 

 

Increasing numbers of people embarking upon their journeys of spiritual awakening in conjunction with the increasing level of violence, particularly inflicted by young persons.  (What's up with a six-year-old toting a gun to school?)  How are so many finding meditative practices as a means of discovering peace and joy while so many random acts of violence become more frequent, if not the norm and consistent message in every media broadcast?  Remember the 60's when it was the Hippie movement, the Flower Children? Teens and young people in their 20's, who professed and practiced free love, peace, nonviolence, end to war and often did so at college campuses during a time of great civil unrest - Vietnam War, Racial Discrimination.  Look at the violence on our college campuses today - shooting rampages at the hands of disenchanted youth, broken hearts, alienated young adults. 

 

More ironies are easily identified....individual greed and self-gratification while the financial world collapses. 

The issues are large.  The problems are real. 

 

Where are the answers? Who has the solutions?  The solutions are in the hands of each individual.  One person can make a difference as documented in The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell.  In that book,  one of the many accounts of individuals making a difference was the story of Paul Revere who on April 18 sounded the alert of the approaching British troops.  His ride and courage went down in history.  One man, one horse. We know of many other examples including Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and YOU.   What difference will you make?  
   

To your exceptional successes,

Jill Hickman