WHERE WE ARE, AND WHAT WE ARE DOING.

We see most clearly where we are, and what we are doing, when we take the long view.

Taking the long view, we can see events that consume our daily attention in a larger, longer context: for example,  protests that began in about 1964 ended 10 years or so later in the United States completely ending its involvement in war in Vietnam; or to take another example, eventually learning to incorporate  accommodations for disabled people in each new way of living in America.

And now we can see the daily reports (always presented in terms of "Be afraid, be very afraid") in context, things like terrorists in charge of the U.S. House of Representatives or certain State Legislatures threatening new ways to keep their opponents from voting.  The terrorists will be gone from our House;  State Legislatures will eventually flip from the dark side to the Force, as it were.

Taking the long view of things is the best antidote to 'being afraid, being very afraid.'    It is worth repeating that courage is not the antidote to fear, faith is the antidote to fear.

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