Imagining a New World

This evening, my entire neighborhood started howling. Liked caged animals I suppose. The stars were just starting to come out and you could hear the chorus of howls around the valley for miles (mostly people, but the dogs chimed in too). I stood on the wet grass as the sound circled around me and it really sunk in what extraordinary times we are living through right now. Of course, I don’t want this to go on forever. I want people to be healthy and be able to work and kids to go to school. But I don’t want things to go back to the way they were, both in the big picture and for me personally. Think about it, how much do you want your old life back? With all that has been taken away, we have been given a great gift–the opportunity to imagine a new world.

The Silver-Lining of Destruction

This is the silver-lining of destruction–when a wave of change this large comes through the collective, nothing is the same as it was before. And that’s a good thing. That’s not to say that there weren’t things before that were of value, they were either relevant for the time or are still relevant and will remain through this phase transition. But to return everything to exactly as it was would be anti-evolutionary, just the ever-repeating known. What is interesting is the new, what is exciting is the unknown.