I've been hoping someone would write that definitive piece about the Occupy movement in The Atlantic or The New Yorker, you know the kind I mean, which helps us mull things over on a deeper level. It's been written. With great thanks to poet and writer Elliot Figman, I highly recommend this post by Rebecca Solnit, "Compassion Is Our New Currency. (Notes on 2011's Preoccupied Hearts and Minds)" Find it at TomDispatch.com. Save some time to read it, or, print it out for the bus, subway, or over lunch.
About Rebecca: She is a writer who puts the heft into scholarly work before putting pen to paper. And she's done so here. I've been a fan of hers since reading her epic, "A Paradise Built in Hell." It's providential to discover this essay today, on the Feast of Saint John the Evangelist. In his icons John is often writing yet looking away for reflection and divine inspiration.
About Elliot: He opened his home to weary hunger strikers even while preparing for a wedding reception in his apartment. I first met him during that coffee hour with the hunger strikers and Fr. Jim Cooper. He was an earnest and helpful voice then, and as I say, opened his home immediately...alongside the wedding cake's arrival. You meet some wonderful people in these days. Indeed, Rebecca Solnit addresses this phenomena of connection in her earlier book as she does in this article.
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