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I’ve been sitting on this article from Good Magazine for awhile and just found it at the bottom of a stack of papers on my desk. Derrik Ashong articulates something that I’ve been musing on for a while now and I imagine many of you have as well: a knowing sense of change in the air coupled with the difficulty in defining it. I like his description:

It’s the unbridled optimism of we who see our time has come. The “Change Agents” coming soon to a theater near you, with a look and vibe that defies definition.

What Signifies the Turning Point?
Some look for big events to mark a big shift–a million people walking to DC in protest of racism, a man walking on the moon, sleek skyscrapers rising, sweeping policy changes… I’m inclined to think differently. Grandiose events may be a birthplace but they started with a conception: a woman refusing to get off the bus, an idealistic President saying something crazy like “we’re going to walk on the moon,” a small group of people asking hard questions about the best use of a plot of land, a gathering of people giving up a Friday night to watch a documentary together.

Biology teaches us that conception begins with a simple exchange, a timely merging,…

I don’t know about you but I’ve been pondering where all this (the unbridled optimism of we who see our time has come) will lead 9 months from now, 2 years from now, 5 years from now, 100 years from now.

You’re the Signifier
You “Change Agents” are the reason we’re doing what we are…and it will be because of you that this city begins the arduous process of redefining itself…its not going to come from slogans or good intentions or finger-pointing or even the most promising green-tech breakthrough, it will be because people like you in your individual spheres of influence are making a difference, challenging the status quo, asking probing questions, being willing to be challenged, getting together with others and DOING SOMETHING about it.

I’ve been hearing back from a lot of people about the Radiant City Screening and our first “Sit Here… and Dream Big” video (anyone checked out a rock yet?). The common thread running through them all is this:

Let’s keep this going

Do you hear it? I do. Unbridled optimism…

Jason