Susan "Tiny" Ceja:  

We live in complicated times. Our lives are too often overloaded with information that usually has the effect of adding to our inner stress and turmoil. We seek, but we don't necessarily find the ultimate things we long to experience ... contentment, joy, love, inner peace. The World tells us that we should be successful, rich, beautiful, famous. In a consumer society the power of media and advertising constantly bombards us with messages and images reminding us of our ¿lack¿ and we so often feel like failures. Life¿s condition means that at any given moment the things we value most can be swiftly taken away from us at any point in time. Our health, our safety and security, both emotionally and physically are not always lasting. The comfortable status quo cannot necessarily be maintained or guaranteed... So we carry our anxiety and fear of loss within and around us unwittingly. We strive for a ¿better moment¿ than the one we are currently in, while dragging the burdens of our past into every present situation, so that we are rarely, if ever, ¿here and now¿. How do we find meaning, value and connection in a society that is dislocated and in many ways dysfunctional? We have lost our sense of community, or bel...Expand for more