Yes, and….

 After all the bad news stories of a recession happening in the world of  teeth cracked from the grinding stress, defaulted condos where the occupants are left stranded, hard-working star employees who have to end their Circuit City jobs as their customers are consumed with the best deals. 

http://www.ThisAmericanLife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=377

There are still more stories on NPR of those bloated bankers, labor union busters, drunk with way too much wealth CEO’s.

All the time while we are wondering where their money came from. How they grew so big, as we are scrambling to keep or get a job.

 There is no shortage of stories of crisis, in our instant gratification society,as Obama names it, where we are  “lurching from shock to trance.” 

 But listening, really listening, is something else.

It is not the shutting down brain washed drugged out re-making of us into emptiness, not the trance where we stop talking about politics and economics as if they have nothing to do with our enlightenment .

 Listening takes a big belly breath,  our opening like a flower in the midst of all this mess and actively hearing what you are saying without asking any questions or offering advice, or making any comments about your possibly never getting where you thought you might someday.

Listening takes just being with you right now and seeing what you see and where it is we are in the wide awake world.

 Yes, and finding there is still happiness,  grateful to be alive-ness.

There is still time to invent, dream, think, and find peace between us.