Dueling Prints

A phrase my grandfather would say. A phrase meant to allow a step back to the bigger picture—a play on stoic philosophy or the serenity prayer. All of the work stress is mostly something I will not be thinking about even a year from now. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter.

This is the counterpoint to the previous print. If we are fifty years down the road, and a kid is learning about history, and they look to you and ask, “What did you do when that was going on?” What will your response be?

Would I have done anything during the civil rights movement as a white man? Would I have been as decisive as Deitrich Bonhover in Nazi Germany? I don’t know.

Am I directly facing the core issues of the day and taking action? What am I doing about climate change? Am I engaging in the political discourse of the day? What am I doing to help others? Am I living life in a way that sets a foundation for my kids to build from? Am I looking at the world and trying to define what might need to change?