Persons of tomorrow, though fully alive as individuals, are also at home in their relationships. Capacities such as loyalty, partnership, friendship, empathy, solidarity, support, nurturance and followership, are necessary ingredients for thriving in the 21st century.*
Maureen O’Hara and Graham Lancaster

Yes, we must continue to read and write and cipher, but we also need to embrace an education for liberating the ability to imagine, to dream, and expand the limits of the possible. … Perhaps I will find it in the future.**
Jean Houston

I’m all for someone knowing who they are,
It’s what my work is all about,
But knowing who we are only makes sense in community,
And community may well be how we come to know
who we are.

However, in the West it seems that
we are living in the age of individualism and
celebrity, and
when we do find each other can
be in the form of “us versus them,”
But this is not the future, and
it is not why we have struggled for so long
only to arrive here, now.

Agnes Varda declared,
There is only one age: alive,^
Which I borrow the style of when I suggest
there is only one future: us.

People from the future know this and
live towards this today:
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.^^

*Maureen O’Hara and Graham Lancaster’s Dancing at the Edge;
**Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life;
^Austin Kleon’s blog: A quote a day;
^^Henry David Thoreau, from Krista Tippett’s Becoming Wise.