How often do I venture outside self interest?

Tom Ehrich, in his daily "On a Journey" email, often makes me ask myself questions. This is the passage that made me think today.
"The reality, of course, is that any time people gather to deal with life, especially suffering and unfairness, the context is profoundly religious and political. This is where God will be found, "working the crowd" of victims and mercy-givers, helping people to connect despite a world bent on division, helping God's beloved to see the holiness of life and to venture outside self-interest."
Good question for me today. Where is my self interest, and how far outside of that boundary will I dare to go today to realize the holiness of life around me?

Coco in La La Land

Look at that white face!

Life's strange happenings

The other night I had a dream that I had a tumor on my lung and that there was no hope of a cure. Usually I don't remember my dreams for long after awakening, but for some reason I thought of that dream several times the next day.
Then, on the evening of that next day, I got a call from my cousin, to whom I haven't spoken in at least ten years. She told me that her sister, my other cousin, had died of lung cancer over a month ago.
So strange.
My heart goes out to my cousins and my aunt. Grief can be so raw some times.

More photography samples!

The door of a remodeled house in downtown Tucson
La Placita

Parking structure across from La Placita