Part Two: The Ideal

Though our gang of house guests was getting organized to head off to their geology field camp this morning, we did have time to take one of them, Henok, up the canyon to see freshly fallen snow. He is from Ethiopia, is studying at a university in Florida, and he had never seen snow except on mountain peaks. What a happy new adventure! He even built his first snow man!

We met Henok barely 24 hours ago, and it's unlikely our paths will cross again in person. But now we have this wonderful shared experience, we've peeked into each others' lives, and we have gained a larger understanding of a world which isn't really so large.

I wish the same for everyone. Can you imagine the power in that "to nibble away at whatever anger there is in the world"?