Everyday, several times a day, I read the news.  I look at national and world news mainly.  The reason I read it several times a day is because something generally happens that continues to reveal to me that this world and this nation is tearing itself apart.  There is a negative dynamic in today's news that presents the inevitability of a world at war (people against people) as a looming threat.  What does this do to me?  It seems that I now live with a dark and foreboding awareness that something bad is about to happen.  It is hard to turn a deaf ear to what I'm seeing around the world.  It reminds me of when I was a child in the cold war era, when we as school children were shown films of what to do if we see a mushroom cloud on the horizon.  Any of you remember those films?  Honestly, did you believe them?  I'm sure hiding under a desk in case a nuclear weapon was dropped on us would really help protect us, right?  That is what I grew up with, and is how I feel now.  I feel in some ways that we are being told that the political and social remedies being presented by politicians and activists are all the people of this Country and this world needs, when in fact what they are saying has as much of a chance of turning things around and protecting this Nation and creating harmony and peace, as that school desk had with protecting us from an atomic bomb.  So what do I do about this threat?  What should we do about it?  Is there a place where we can go that rises above it while living in it?