Snow!

Up here in the greater Victoria area, we've recently had a bit of a snow storm (30-60 centimeters for the last three days) and I wanted to provide a brief metaphor: ethnicites will fight brutally, undertaking ethnic cleansing and ethnic realingment in their own parochial areas for ancient reasons resulting in brutal suffering, and yet temporarily unite to carry out further atrocities in the name of god, country in pure, post-geo-ethnic nationalism. Water constantly circulates through the ages in the ocean, a tiny section at the top being lifted into the sky, some to fall as rain in the Amazon and some to fall as snow in Canada. The randomness and blind prejudice of birth and formation of a human is akin to this. Two H's and two O's are still present at the bottom of the ocean as much as it is in the snow I hold in my hand. They are uniquely and universally different, water, snow, hail, ice and clouds working to melt and freeze each other. They are all conduits for something bigger, something unstoppable. If H20 is ethnicity, it is both a part of that unstoppable snowball, and an aside from it.
To move forward we must recognize this and shape our actions, our consciousness and our decisions regarding the small change we can make in the greater change in the world.
Just a thought. Remember to check out www.narconews.com for updates on the developing story in Oaxaca, Mexico and Reuters Alertnet or other resource for news abouth Somalia and the illegitimatized state of Eritrea.