Welcome to the fall..which can have quite the double meaning these days, can't it? While I'm basking in the autumnal vibe, I'd also like to make room for an energy that feels much more prevalent. It's the notion, and for some, the practice that we are much more separate (and unequal) than we really are.

Three questions seem to repeatedly come up in our society these days:                              

Who do you love?

Who do you support?

Who do you worship?

And yet, when we tap into the stuff we're really made of, instead of man made differences, we're hard wired for community with and caring for each other. Aren't we?

Think about the daily interactions and exchanges you've had with other people recently. Remember the small kindnesses? the help you offered or were offered? the gestures of simple care from friends or even strangers? There wasn't a big discussion of motivation, personal history or intent. It just happened naturally and probably without even thinking.

Now let's consider some kind of crisis, upheaval, or horrific event, be it man made or a naturally occurring. The same practice surfaces even more immediately, intensely, and without hesitation. 

"Differences" are off the table and don't come into play at all. At all. We just dive right in and do what has to be done to move through the crisis as efficiently and quickly as possible. Again, there isn't any debate about what to do for each other in the thick of the moment. 

It's that moment when "Who Do You...?" (2:48) becomes irrelevant.