It's A Small World After All

No, not the mind-numbing Disney song, although the idea is there. But in this day and age the world is no longer a bunch of loosely connected places (if it ever really was.) First we know things more quickly thanks to rapid communication. We also are now used to things coming from varied places.

So it should have come as no shock yesterday when I picked up the bag of grapes at the local grocery store, looked down as I set them in the cart and saw:

Producto de Chile.

It was a shock. All of a sudden an earthquake the other end of the world was right there in my grocery cart. I wondered if the people who picked these grapes or the shipping depot workers or the truck drivers were okay or even alive. They may still have been nameless and faceless but they were part of the few degrees of separation that the modern world depends on.