Sunday, June 17

Today:

Rodney King died at age 47.
Unofficial tallies declared the muslim brotherhood presidential candidate the winner in Egypt.
Portlanders marched for equality and gay pride while many others watched.
At least 21 people died in church bombings and countless wounded in Nigeria.
It's Father's Day.
A man was rescued this morning after clinging to a cliff all night after a kayaking accident.
Justin Bieber won a Canadian music award.
Madagascar 3 was the top selling movie.

Do you ever wonder what is happening all around the world at the same exact second?  You're drinking coffee.  Someone else is hiking up Mt. McKinley.  A child is sleeping after a long day walking miles to gather water.  A young woman is in between "customers," working the line in the red-light district in east India. Countless families are sitting down at the table for dinner.  Countless others are scrounging on their own.  A baby was born, a child just died, an elderly woman has just passed away after a full life.

We can't even begin to fathom the vastness of our world, even if we are aware of it.  The world is so big and so small all at the same time.  It is immensely connected and astonishingly disconnected.

And here we are.