Life is not a performance and we are not living in a movie. Rather in The Good Decision life is a gift and we are all enmeshed in a life experience that stretches back into deep history and portends forward well into the future. Our individual stories are either negatively charged dust or the nano contributions of our one short opportunity to create with curiosity under this sun. Our true contributions to future have no name attached to them. Memorial marble and bronze deteriorate and return to earth. This is what I believe they call impermanence humility or being human. Why does all this matter?

Humility matters because we are in trouble.  Our society seems locked in a fixation of mirror gazing.  Perhaps the media has made this self absorption more possible.   The fate of Narcissus, for whom this age should be named, was fated to fall in love with his own image, and helplessly locked onto the reflection of his owned image, died for the lack of thriving for his image could not love him back. Performing yourself has no lasting nutrition.

Our time right now needs to be a time of protest but not the simplistic performance of protest.  Good is looking up and out to our communities and the connections that weave the past, present, and future. Narcism in protest tends to become disruption following an internal script of personal heroism in a time when we need to move the needle from ego to relationship and connection.  Genuine protest is saying no to what we must say no and concurrently saying yes to affirm the values of personhood, the democracy and constitution.  It is the “yes” that gathers the orphans of “no’s” work. The central goal of protest is not extending the narcissistic divisions of this day through performance theater, but rather the promotion of new connections thought impossible yesterday but crucial for a tomorrow. Doing the impossible is the creativity of the curious and courageous, which this project holds as good.