We are not the first generations to face great crises or to face unpleasant forces ascendant in the world.

We are perhaps rare in that the world as we have been conditioned to expect it to be differs substantially from the world as it is developing to be.

But we are not so rare from other generations in being called to take a stand, do the work, fight a good fight.

So perhaps we have to let go of the world as we were conditioned to expect to be, to look at the world as it is developing to be, and to find our place in the body that will turn the world toward what we would wish it to be.

Perhaps we should find our place in the one body, the many bodies, the aggregate, cooperative groups that are trying to build the world into a brighter, richer, healthier place — for everyone.

I mean, don’t you tend to achieve what you really, truly try to achieve?