It’s often said that “perfect is the enemy of the good”. Initiatives for moral, social and political change get bogged down in negotiating calculus. Everyone has to get something in return for compromise, but generosity is not at the heart of it. It is then this phrase is applied to the quagmire of inaction. Perhaps we need to modify our picture of perfection.

Many times, I’ve used today’s powerful waterfall of prophetic outrage in guiding prayer times with groups, small and large, who are dedicated to these ideas. But I could never say them like a Martin Luther King or some other figure leading a counter-revolution against the status quo of injustice.

A wide, perhaps imperceptible, emotional and psychological toll is being paid by so many of us. With summer camps closed My thoughts go to a young woman anticipating a leadership development summer. The growth in the young moving from 15 to 16 is far greater than for me going from one geezer year to the next.

“Flying by the seat of your pants” sounds less elegant than “emergent design”, but in many ways that’s what we are doing these days. Right now, we are overloaded with information and competing strategies for managing the disease and opening the economy. Who has the right answer when we aren’t really sure what the questions are?

The chair of the U.S. Senate’s Intelligence Committee is alleged to have used insider knowledge from a top-secret briefing about the threat of pandemic to sell stock before the market crashed (while assuring his constituents there was no threat). He could have served his people.