Reaching up again
You’ll soon have a choice! You’ve taken shelter as our ancient forests burned and before long, you can decide how to repopulate your vacant fields. Are you going to select which seeds to plant, or just let the weeds take over?
We’ll be facing some of the biggest opportunities in generations with the chance to reinvent everything in our lives. It’s already been a year of reinventing as we hurried to minimize our exposure to sickness while somehow finding new ways for carrying out our most essential tasks. Now as we’re planning to reopen, we get to reinvent once again. Opening can take all of our joint creativity to transform the world we inherited to a place we can only imagine.
Instead of replicating what we had, we can reposition the framework of our lives to better suit how we want to live. In the name of survival our traditions have been boxed and stored away. Before unpacking our heritage, let’s pause to take a second look to see which rituals and customs retain value.
Our largest losses can bring our biggest gains. Virtual everything came at the expense of our humanity. As we begin to lace our shoes to leave our homes, our social ties need to be refastened. So much is gained and learned through collaborating with our networks and through our gatherings – traveling, and sports. As we return, let’s reimagine and expand our connections with people. When the masks come off, re-weaving our social tapestry is a good step forward as we begin starting over.