There really is so much to talk about.  But I find that talking to my friends is sometimes difficult right now.  Either they are terrified and they can’t be talked out of it, or they have developed theories that may make sense – if you’re crazy.   All the apocryphal visions.  All the wild scenarios.  Some of them make a little sense, but the religious extremists frighten me, because they make just a little sense.  Not the part about how the prayers of those who don’t go into the army have  saved us, much more than the helpless army.  But the part about how we’ve become far too materialistic and we need therefore to introduce some spirituality into our society. 

And I have to become more compassionate.