THE FUTURE IS BIG...

Here's another quote I had to share. Maybe one day, I'll do less sharing and write my own prolific statement. Ha! But I've found that the more I try, the less prolific I become. :)

This inspired me today. It is part of a speech delivered this past weekend in Oakland, CA by writer, activist, Rebecca Solnit. She is a force:

“The future is bigger than our imaginations. It’s unimaginable, and then it comes. To meet it we need to keep going, to walk past what we can imagine. We need to be unstoppable. You don’t stop walking to congratulate yourself. You don’t stop walking to wallow in despair, even though that’s a very fashionable wallow these days. You don’t stop because your own life got comfortable or rough. You don’t stop because you won. You don’t stop because you lost. There’s more to win, more to lose. You keep on walking. You don’t stop walking because there is no way forward. Of course there is no way. You walk the path into being, you make the way, and if you do it well others can follow the route. You look backward to understand the long history you move forward from, the paths others made, the road you came in on. You look forward to possibility: that’s what we mean by hope. But mostly you just walk, right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot. That’s what makes you unstoppable."

--Rebecca Solnit