Overload: Breathing Our Way Forward

Let me start by saying this post is ultimately about breathing and compassion.  So if you're holding your breath or withholding compassion from yourself or anyone else, take a moment right now to kindly and mindfully fill your lungs.

And now a question:  does anyone else out there feel exceptionally full in heart and mind and spirit? 

I find myself tuning in each morning to NPR, watching Facebook for updates from my friend Bob in Japan, as well as on the continuing shared horror over the gang rape of an eleven year old girl in Texas and the deeply disheartening response to that, and looking online at news on all that's happening in Libya and elsewhere.

And with each new bit of information, I feel more paralyzed, like I'm sinking into quicksand and unable to do anything about it.