A hopeful future requires that we find some way of opening to and being present to one another in our imperfections and incompleteness.

Yet, even with these things, we have more than we know, and bringing them together provides the future with an advantage.

It’s more dangerous when we make out that everything is okay with us, or with some situation, because our covering and protecting ourselves with okay makes us incapable of being fully present in the new possibilities which come along.

Something magical happens when we admit we make mistakes, we don’t know everything, we’re not the answer: we become new people.