Tim Coats

We spend much of life trying to predict the future, yet the future remains unknowable. This reflection explores why our real responsibility is not forecasting what comes next, but contributing beauty, meaning, and goodness wherever we are today.

It’s popular today to assume we’re swirling the drain. Climate change, mass extinctions, political divisiveness, inequality, debt, and mass shootings support that assumption. Todays’s news feeds remind me of Pvt. Moriarty in the 1970 WW2 comedy film Kelly’s Heroes. Donald Sutherland played a long-haired Zen-minded Sgt. Oddball. Pvt. Moriarty is “Debbie Downer,” always pointing … Continue reading “Negative Waves”