My Sense

Things are very up in the air right now. I feel like we are hanging high up on the hook of a tower crane, dizzying, perhaps about to drop, I hear the wind blowing about my ears, this is a precarious perch. We're about to see many things in our lives change shape, reform, reorganize.

Let me try to be more concrete ... the way we are living so dependent on oil will change, the big car thing will be changing, the credit card debt situation is changing, health care can't go on this way, with so many people uninsured, the way marriage works (doesn't work) is changing, the way big companies work (don't work) is changing, the way we think about family is changing, the way we treat people -- our notions of kindness and fairness in this world -- is changing, and this last one has a lot to do with women demanding a new respect and position in the world. Coming out from under the burqua. Women are changing many big things by making many small changes. They have no idea how much they are changing things.