Sticking together

The amazing story of the Chilean miners is a powerful reminder of, among other things, the social nature of the human person, though that nature is too often concealed by the isolation of modern life.  I don't think it takes a crisis to bring this to the fore -- even in the simplified form of daily living that often happens on a vacation, I find myself drawing closer to those around me.  The trick, it seems, is maintaining that social orientation when the vacation is over, when we've been returned to the Earth's surface.