A couple of days ago a friend sent me a profound book excerpt. A portion of what she sent follows:

“We are asked today to feel compassionately for everyone in the world; to digest intellectually all the information spread out in public print; and to implement in action every ethical impulse aroused by our hearts and minds. The inter-relatedness of the world links us constantly with more people than our hearts can hold. Or rather—for I believe the heart is infinite—modern communication loads us with more problems than the human frame can carry. It is good, I think, for our hearts, our minds, our imaginations to be stretched; but body, nerve, endurance and life-span are not as elastic. My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.”

This was written half a century ago. The quote is from Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The widow of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh speaks to me today.