Coming together

I can see, and more importantly feel, that the cultural rift in the United States is closing. I do not wish to project unbridled hope so let me just say that a new rift, likely many rifts, are on the horizon. but for the moment let's stick with the idea that the old one is closing. 

I just came from a graduation keynote that was inspiring in that it was given by one who is identified as a Bush conservative and spoke to Obama liberals. Not that he intended to cross boundaries. The messages of community building and power coming best from groups of people speak equally to communitarians of yesterday and faith based services of, also yesterday. The multiple crisis' of the moment are driving us to actualize the saying, "act locally and think globally".