It's About Time

We are everywhere doing everything we can in such a short period of time. The past 5 days have found my group in Nagasaki visiting schools, Ground Zero, the Peace Gardens, Christian Churches, Tea Ceremonies, Universities and a recycling plant. All of that plus eating some of the most outstandingly amazing foods I've ever experienced. I also, through an incredible coincidence (do they exist?) was lined up with an LDS family for a home visit over the past weekend. I went to church with them. It was the first time I've been to church in more than a month. It was a good place, a good space, for me and seemed to be a positive experience for everyone.

I have sooo many images I could upload, but am prohibited from uploading the best ones. Those w

ould be the faces of the children at the schools we have visited. They are incredibly beautiful. sitting with them, feeling their energy, innocence and passion for life was/is

transformative.

So much to write...so little time.

One thing that's coming to me about ESD is that there will never be sustainable solutions for sustainable development issues, be they energy, housing, transportation, resource depletion, climate-change, sustainable food supply, world peace or any other SD issue of substance just by teaching it in the classrooms. There are some internal issues that a substantial number of us will have to confront. It will require a shift in our nature or at least in our perceptions of

who/what we are and our place and relationship with everything and everyone else.

It's about time, no?