Who?

Okay, so I know that I try to avoid the "heavy" posts on this blog, but recently I've seen or read about several young folks that I know personally touched by the loss of a young man that I've never met. I'm reminded of our president talkin' about "the fierce urgency now." If you consider yourself one who is working torward something more than you already have, I challenge you to a build a relationship with someone, anyone, who has not yet fully embraced the idea that he or she has the capacity to move beyond "what is." The expression "it is what it is" is tossed around without much regard to what it implies. Indeed, it is what it is until you--I--we decide that "what is" is subject to change. I will never profess to have the answers to all of our social ills, but I will say, with all confidence, that I own my responsibility in trying to instigate change in our community. My hope is that we (the patriarchs & matriarchs of our neighborhoods) can find the courage to ask ourselves: If not me--who?