This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.

The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.

For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.

We can choose who we bring into our lives. We can choose who will reinforce our risk taking.

Fear doesn't have to stop us.

I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see that everything's connected and change is the only constant.