living from the center

 A Dutch grocery store thinking about what they can do for lonely customers.

A Canadian park Board thinking about how to step toward righting past wrongs, and First Nations deciding to be magnanimous.

An American sock company built on the idea of giving as much as receiving. 

(Compare this, by the way, with the shoe company that advertised the same, gave away cheap, flimsy products, failed at it, and switched to philanthropy - much to the disdain of our millennial and Z children. Still an attempt!)

Yes, you cynics, they all gain as well, and the processes are flawed. But the thinking outside the box inside and outside the systems brings me hope, people knowing what is most important and living out of that.

Here's to staying awake enough to know what we can do.

and to the centers