Keith Yamashita.

I am a gay dad. An entrepreneur. A systems thinker. A possibilitarian. A stroke survivor. A crappy, sentimental poet. A passionate participant in making a more equitable, inclusive, creative world—by design.

It’s hard to know how to “be” these days.

Our world is complex and beautiful, falling apart and so evident of new yearnings.

My friend Krista Tippett calls this ‘a species defining moment.’

And, isn’t it?

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More and more, I sense we need to build our imagination as a species.

The challenges in front of us outstrip our capacity to confront them.

The possibilities in front of us are more vast than our self-permissions to claim them.

We can foster a new moral clarity. A new moral courage.

Perhaps it’s time to build our moral imagination to live into both.

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