What Borders Are Really About

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July 15, 2018 a project of ServiceSpace We're all just walking each other home. - Ram Dass - What Borders Are Really About "The wonderful writer Luis Alberto Urrea says that a deep truth of our time is that we miss each other. We have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is singularly wise about the deep meaning and the problem of borders. The Mexican-American border, as he likes to say, ran straight through his parents' Mexican-American marriage and divorce. His works of fiction and non-fiction confuse every dehumanizing caricature of Mexicans and of U.S. border guards. The possibility of our time, as he lives and witnesses with his writing, is to evolve the old melting pot to the 21st-century richness of us with all the mess and necessary humor required." { read more } Be The Change Reach out to someone across an invisible or actual boundary or border in your own life today. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Dan Siegel: The Open Mind Perseverance is Willingness, Not Will 5 Habits to Heal the Heart of Democracy Three Things that Matter Most in Youth and Old Age Anne Lamott Writes Down Every Single Thing She Knows I Trust You Dying to Be Me How Trauma Lodges in the Body DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,988 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More