Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.
Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.
If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.
When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.
There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.