What does this all mean?

I am sitting in a coffee shop off Randolph Street in Chicago- close to the Lake and the Art Institute. There are all kinds of people that are moving in and out of this coffee shop enjoying a morning cup of coffee. I was thinking about how cool this atmosphere is, and at the same time how surreal. Does anybody work? Is everyone in school? Has our culture become so dependent on outside fuel(caffeine) for our bodies that business meetings, and deals are being brokered with a 16 oz. skinny mocha latte (make sure that it is fair trade-mine was direct trade...?).

I, myself was supposed to be meeting with my internship supervisor, but we had to cancel at the last minute. I have some basic questions, but more than anything I just wanted to meet a face associated with the program. As I am someone who is so decidedly relational, I have to have some face to put with a voice and name. I don't think that I would last long in corporate America.

Some questions/thoughts as I look at the reality of Holy Thursday:

*Today I celebrate the "traditional last supper" in the Christian tradition. I will be going to liturgy at some neighborhood parish in the south-side. I have always found this liturgy to be so moving, and intend to be moved today as well. I find it to be a profound experience when the Eucharist is moved from the tabernacle to a place of reservation, and then our church does not consecrate again until the Easter Vigil. What a statement!

*Bush is definitevely backing his position to have taken our nation into this war. What else could he do? Apologize to the families and friends of all those who have lost loved ones as a result of his greed? Probably not.
*Cheney doesn't care how many lives have been lost, and that 2/3 of Americans do not support or see any benefit to an American presence in Iraq.
*The war has lasted longer than the Civil War, WWI, and WWII. What a tragedy.

Please join me in a prayer for peace today.