The What Next
Saturday, December 13, 2008
I've seen it in the children with whom I've talked stories, words, and writing. I saw it among the young photographers of Centro Nueva, who joined me not long ago for an afternoon of seeing, recording, bearing witness. I see it every time I talk with my son, who is home with us now, an entire month between college semesters (he talks logic, he talks hymns that become rock anthems, he talks libertarian media and its counterpoints, he talks about yielding to a truer self). What knowledge does. What learning makes one hungry for. How learning begets wanting begets needing begets passion.
It's the passion that we want most of all for our children. That we want most of all for each other, for ourselves. The waking up to the moon, the urgent now. The question, jolted through: What next?
