Ubuntu. One simple word to describe our required communal responsibility.

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My friend, in our civilized society with all of its wonderful technological advancements, we have so far to go and so much work to do.

My father would seasonally go into his "holiday funk" (what I called it) because during all holidays he always became powerfully reminded of how blessed his life and his loved ones was... despite the fact that when I was growing up we were a family on the bottom end of the moderate income families in the United States. He would - in his own personal words - he would say to me over and over again each Christmas season, "...how can one of us be happy while the rest of us are miserable?" Ubuntu, my friend.

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It will forever remain a simple and profoundly perplexing concept to us Westerners... my friend, Life, when you reduce it to its most basic and powerful components, is all about "loaves and fishes." We are more when we gather, bless and divide, rather than hoard.

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When will we eventually learn this powerful lesson in our society? When we will eventually grasp the concept that dividing our blessings only multiplies those very blessings? We are blinded from the cradle to the grave that we are owners of all that is available around us. When, in fact, we are simply renters of all that is around us and within us. We own nothing and take nothing with us. My friend, we are "ubuntu" incarnate... but we simply haven't realized it yet.