Every generation faces its own self to a lesser or greater degree. We are living in a time of reckoning on many levels. This is one of those moments when it is helpful to be clear, to offer lucidity in the midst of chaos and hope beyond isolation. It is easy to declare the world broken. It is quite another thing to aspire beyond this place and this time, and to continue the hard work of being human in spite of ourselves.

We like to fix things. We live in a culture capable of many things and we have shown what it is to rise beyond ourselves to address anxieties once believed impossible to remed...