Sitting around the dinner table with friends, talk turned to the war and our frustrations with so much that is wrong in our world.
Someone said he was tired of politicians who kept up the shell games of half-truths. Another said he was tired of worrying about the economy and oil and terrorism and the bleak future. Someone said he was just tired of saying goodbye to some special people who had made his own journey just a little easier.
The more we talked, the more hopeless we felt. So someone asked: How do we keep our perspective when so much around us seems so wrong?
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