Seeing from the Future

So what does it all mean?  Perhaps that what we can do in the face of an unknowable future is to be prepared as individuals and as communities, able and fit enough to respond in ways we cannot know ahead of time that we will create together.  How then will we prepare? Perhaps by looking in the least likely, most distant corners of our country.  These will be rural places, ignored and neglected pockets of resilience and endurance that have sustained ages of neglect and maintained presence, retained a vision of what it means to be a human being. Perhaps in these places we will find voices speaking, that have never stopped speaking, if we would but listen closely, attentively to learn how to reclaim what it means to be human, what it means to live in harmony with the earth and sky, what it means to live as though every person matters, every voice counts.