It is all around us, the call for calm amidst all the clamor. The complexities of human endeavoring, if they were not so painful for so many, might be wonderful to contemplate as imaginative displays of unperfected self-interest. Add to this the apparent post-modern burden from which there is no seeming escape, and we have the backdrop for the Avarice Fellowship blog.
The post-modern "burden"--may have less to do with the pluarlism of formerly isolated world peoples, and more to do with the object lessons of Nature itself. This makes today's competition for metaphorical supremacy, and their adherents, no less scary.
How self-interest and our clash of metaphors lay down together, or do not, is profoundly human, and thereby, on some level irresistible as a challenge to one's frame of reference and peace of mind.
Jeff and Valerie Snider are the co-authors of the Avarice Fellowship blog. They have been together as life partners for more than thirty years. Each claims a public school background leading to respective Ivy League and Community College educations. They are parents to five adult children. Their family life, as a first pre-occupation, has been shaped by both private business and multi-national NGO experience.
The Avarice Fellowship is a journey of reflections they have collected, sprinkled with points of view clawed from all the reflecting and the doing. With patience they believe the journey may reveal a process for resourcing community and for realizing a convergence of self-interest, the avarice, with content and value-rich living, the fellowship, in this place, if not in our time. It is their wish.
