MINDFULNESS IN TIMES OF ECONOMIC MELTDOWN

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

No doubt about it, these are scary times. It’s everywhere. Read it online and on people’s stressed faces. See it in empty storefronts, lighter daytime street commuter traffic, thinner mail (businesses don’t have money to market themselves; it’s great not to have all the junk mail but still…). Hear MINDFULNESS IN TIMES OF ECONOMIC MELTDOWNit in the collective roar of outrage over the greedy fat cats that keep getting away with their money-grabbing bonuses and Ponzi schemes. Feel it in the zeitgeist, in the ozone, at the market, in your gut. It’s hard for me to wrap my brain around how this economic tsunami swelled up and crashed down on us. Sure, there were signs and bubble speak; but it still feels like we suddenly stumbled into the middle of a disaster movie.