Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are they provide something steady reliable and safe in a confusing world.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand change can be confusing.

As human beings we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience if something has never happened before we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present the more intense that yearning.