The City

I like London. The humor, the tube, the diversity, the briskness, the futbol, the history, the squares..... My morning reading from Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations seems timely enough to share in its entirety.
"In America we don't have anything even close to Europe's great cities with fountains, cathedrals, promenades and parks. I know we've had two hundred years to work at it, but the point is, Americans don't dream of building a great city. The American dream is having one's own house. In America, we have moved from the Catholic consciousness of the community, of building the city of God, a great people, to taking care of our houses, protecting our neighborhoods, so that handicapped people and people of other skin colors don't move into it and kill property values. We have got to call this what it is: narcissism.
There's a world bigger than our families. The only way we can ultimately protect our family is to create and protect the entire human family."
Well said.
Once again to rail against narcissism on a blog is quite ironic. Nevertheless Father Rohr in a clear and concise way expresses a reason for us to think and feel globally.
And if you are so inclined and practical...
explore ready to use formulas(RTUF) to address malnutrition at validinternational.org and insecticide treated nets(ITN) to address malaria at theglobalfund.org/en/