Today was the most beautiful summer day ever in Oregon---OK, it was tied for first place with many others perhaps. But I didn't get to the experience those, only this one.
The whole world seems on edge lately in a big way. Most everyone who has been paying attention sees some kind of precipice ahead. It's not hard to see why. We needn't fool ourselves that the problems don't at least appear to be bleak.
More than a few folk seem not averse to the idea of welcoming the precipice, whatever they see it as, in the idea that it will be cleansing in some way. Perhaps it would. But who's to say what form that cleansing will take place? Likely it won't be what you hope it will be. It might include some of what you want, but it would certainly be beyond any single person's imagination to understand the end result. History proves this beyond doubt.
Or maybe we'll muddle through. Maybe it will all play out like the end of a Hollywood musical comedy, where everything just comes busting out like flowers. Great heros will come forth and sing.
Is there anything one person can do, to somehow contribute towards steering the great ship of history away from appear to be horrible rocks, and towards the comedic funny shoals of the huge near miss averted? Do we dare think we have that ability as individuals?
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