I Would Say Goodnight

I would say goodnight, sisters and brothers, but concepts such as "day" and "night," "today," and "tomorrow" seem parochial and artificial, like the national borders and time zones drawn on maps and globes. The past is a stick with which they drive us, and the future is a dangling carrot. All we really have, all we have ever had, is the earth and the "now." We need to do better with the "now," we need to do it together, and we need to do it *now*.