What Time Is It?

What Time Is It? V, U, or L O’clock?

“How long before the economy recovers?” is now a frequent question. In this economic moment, the clock is ticking. What time is it? Is this the year of recovery? Or, is it the time when Earth’s support systems cannot support the demands placed on her by humanity’s economic recovery plans, now nine trillion dollars worldwide and growing?

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A Time to Care

The first time I went was Holy Week, 2000. Some of us visited Tzajalchen, a remote mountain community of a few hundred indigenous people who had lost family and friends in a Dec. 23, 1997, massacre. On that day they heard the gunfire on mountainsides across the valley. Hours later their worst fears were confirmed. Even so, they were resolutely committed to nonviolence. Though agreeing with the Zapatista objectives, they shunned weapons. They called themselves the civil society of Las Abejas (The Bees). Like bees in a highly functioning community around their queen, so, they reasoned, were they around their Divine Queen.

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