Dear Kristi, what caught my attention is when I read this: “For those of us who live in cultures where our attention is an incessantly sought-after “commodity” and where the experience of insatiability fuels our economic engines…” Oh, how so true! Then, I clicked on the link to your blog entry on Trains of Thought and that was a double-whammy! We all need to slow down and savor life – get off the attention as commodity train which leads to boarding the ‘awful-izing’ train. Thank you!!