I do believe we're seeing some heroes on the national level who are stepping into the breach. And for them and their tenacity I'm ever so grateful. But I think your writing calls for each of us, in whatever challenges are in or are coming our way to be a hero. The foe we're facing seems overwhelming, but the hero's journey IS ALWAYS impossible; until it's not. And it's important, critical even, that we will probably face a tipping point where everything will seem lost. Personally, each day's news appears to beg the question, can it get any worse?
The tipping point is only comprehended in retrospect--so yes it can get worse. But I constantly think about Gandalf's wisdom (especially compelling as Tolkien wrote this beginning in 1937):
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
I look forward to the day we can look at these days and events in retrospect as we do the GWOT, Vietnam, Korea, WWII, WWI, and our very own Civil War (which I'm not sure has actually ended).
I do believe we're seeing some heroes on the national level who are stepping into the breach. And for them and their tenacity I'm ever so grateful. But I think your writing calls for each of us, in whatever challenges are in or are coming our way to be a hero. The foe we're facing seems overwhelming, but the hero's journey IS ALWAYS impossible; until it's not. And it's important, critical even, that we will probably face a tipping point where everything will seem lost. Personally, each day's news appears to beg the question, can it get any worse?
The tipping point is only comprehended in retrospect--so yes it can get worse. But I constantly think about Gandalf's wisdom (especially compelling as Tolkien wrote this beginning in 1937):
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Denise, true.
I look forward to the day we can look at these days and events in retrospect as we do the GWOT, Vietnam, Korea, WWII, WWI, and our very own Civil War (which I'm not sure has actually ended).