Our world has tilted. We slip and stumble... Since September 11 we've begun to suffer an elemental instability. The security we once took for granted must now be preserved by fighting for it. This loss of peace. Safety is no longer assured. We can no longer move through normal paths of our communities with an unconsidered trust. The common, unremarkable things of our previous life?the things by which we oriented ourselves, the conditions under which we did business and loved and acted passed our days?are suddenly transformed into potential sources of danger. A letter may have the bite of a poisonous serpent. Travel is difficult, if not dangerous. Hatreds are justified. Death is dealt without remorse but with, indeed, a religious assurance. Murderers are worshippers, and heaven rewards their murders.