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12/27/2004: "Far and Wide"

Lord, your world is so big and this life is so small. I stopped the paper; I never turned on the television; I didn't look at the RSS feeds. I forgot there was a world beyond the horizon, and the horizon got closer and closer the more I got involved in the little jobs in front of me. But the world was out there, and just because I stoped paying attention, it didn't stop turning. And just because those countless lives were ended, or upended; reduced to nothingness or left with nothing; not much changes for me except that now I know a little about it and feel bad and put a comfortable amount of money in a plate headed for Asia. That's what I'm going to do, and it's a good thing to do. The world may be big but each one of those lives is small enough to be helped.