I woke up this morning with the words of a song running through my mind: What the world needs now is love sweet love. It was written in 1965 by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and made famous by Dionne Warwick. That was the year I graduated college and began my career as marriage and

                Fifteen years ago, Rebecca D. Costa challenged us all to address the danger we were facing. In her book, The Watchman’s Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse, published in 2010, she said,                 “Today, the issues that threaten human existence are clear: an intractable global recession, powerful pandemic viruses, terrorism, rising crime, climate