For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.

All social change begins with a conversation.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.