The Stock of a Life

It is not the amount of money we earn, or some glam vacant trophies we add up, which matter when we take stock of our lives — it is the peaceful quiet regard we have managed to collect as human beings.

For none of us avoids being traumatized by our civilizations, or by the often ruthless metrics by which they are owned and operated. I know billionaires and common folk, and I don't know one who does not feel traumatized, who does not feel they wish to heal ourselves as human beings and to heal the land and the very planet we live on.

We who are Americans are particularly wealthy in this regard, as the dream our founders have handed down remains very much alive.