A NEW ERA
THE FUTURE. Isn’t it remarkable how thoughts of what might happen tomorrow can fill us with fear and anxiety… but also with hope and promise? Dark and light. And so, I wonder, what if we were to cast aside the angst of uncertainty, and approach all that is to come with optimism? Foolish optimism, even. I am captivated by the words of philosopher Seneca, which he wrote in a letter to his friend Lucilius: “There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality,” he writes. And, “Let us, then, look carefully into the matter. It is likely that some troubles will befall us, but it is not a present fact. How often has the unexpected happened! How often has…
