Restoration
Restoration Four years ago, in What Would Thoreau Say? I wrote ‘what do we do now?’ after the world was turned upside down by our presidential election. I predicted four years of hell. I was right. Now things are different. I really believe the restoration of America is possible. But only if we also restore truth as truth, something that has been impossible these last four years. Of all the terrible things that have happened since 2016, nothing, in my opinion, nothing, compares to what has happened to the rule of truth. I refuse to give up however. I believe truth can be restored, we can be better, and we can make a commitment to take care of each other. Joanna Macy, one of the world’s great ecologists and Buddhist scholar writes of ‘the Great Turning.’ She believes that we don’t have to stay stuck as we are and that with intentional action, we can turn things. Her analysis is much more detailed than I want to offe...