Other aspects of the human condition were also being melded, national and racial customs and beliefs. There was still a wide disparity in available resources and consumption of resources between regions of the world, but even those were leveling out in the new global economy.
Was that a travesty, a crime against the earth, or did globalization provide benefits to humankind as well as to the planet?
Allie shook her head to dismiss an unanswerable question. There was no consensus. The jury was out and might stay out. It occurred to her that in the end, Mother Nature would do what she had always done--destroy life, give life, change life, in a dance of extinction and emergence, allowing new creations to rise for their place upon Terra and under Sol.
She looked around again at her friends as they talked and laughed, at the grass, the trees, the sky. Suddenly she knew she was a part of it all, under the sun and inside the circle. She belonged here in the West if she wanted to belong here. The place did not own her and she had no claim on it except for a growing bond of affection, but it would welcome her if she allowed it.
In unspoken agreement, they rose, gathered the remnants of their meal to toss in the trash can then turned and headed back down Main Street.
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Would you like to read more about Allie Davis and Kim Altaha? Kim stars in a second mystery/thriller novel, Fatal Refuge, Book Two of the Arizona Thriller Trilogy, available now from Amazon, on all e-readers, and in libraries. Coming in late 2017, read the third and last of the series, A Killing at Lynx Lake.
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