Shhhhh!
I’ll share with you a secret
I believe the iconoclasts of society
those who really “get it”
in terms of what we’re doing to the planet
in terms of what needs to change
and who have great ideas, brilliant ideas, unique, innovative
ground-breaking, trailblazing ideas
these outliers are so extremely rare
they need to be given the ability to GROW
their ideas and disseminate their thinking and plant the
possibility of hope for a future different from the future
that lies frozen ahead in the “crosshairs” of our trajectory.
S o l u t i o n s sometimes distill down to coming up with ways
for making inconvenient truths palatable
and crazy beliefs less so
The mirror side of this is we need to be paying much less attention
(or no attention at all)
to those who presently attract our attention
for all the wrong reasons
and who stand in the way
of what I said above
Read this again tomorrow
and the day after
and every day thereafter
until there’s no longer that need
to do so
People always say
“But what can ‘I’ do?”
That’s something you can do
and if enough people
did likewise
the window of opportunity
to save the planet
would surely grow and grow
that’s the style of growth we need
not feeding that insatiable appetite for greed
that always come with a dollar sign
and ecological destruction
trailing behind in its wake