Thank you for this Jim. I would not call this piece optimistic but it is far less anxious about the future than my words would be. With 6 grandchildren I struggle to be hopeful that they will have the quality of life that my generation had. Of course I grew up as a middle class white straight male and recognize that my time in history was not as kindl to all. Wish we could go back in time and fix that. But I think we have been feverishly trying to fix that in the past 10- 20 years - yet find ourselves in a game of whack a mole where new grievances appear hourly.
Thank you for this Jim. I would not call this piece optimistic but it is far less anxious about the future than my words would be. With 6 grandchildren I struggle to be hopeful that they will have the quality of life that my generation had. Of course I grew up as a middle class white straight male and recognize that my time in history was not as kindl to all. Wish we could go back in time and fix that. But I think we have been feverishly trying to fix that in the past 10- 20 years - yet find ourselves in a game of whack a mole where new grievances appear hourly.