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Here is some sample text to fill out the visual. So many things are happening around our city and the country that are confusing, difficult to understand and often display a certain degree of ugliness about our world. There are more people on the streets who are homeless, mass shootings, a rise in Nazi and fascist groups, the East Wing of the White House has been torn down, and ICE agents continue threatening and arresting our neighbors.

And from around the world, we’re dealing with climate change, wars in such places as Gaza and the Ukraine, and pandemics.

In times like these, how do we create and embrace beauty? How can you and I uplift the beautiful spirit that flickers in all of us, even in those darkest moments? How do we represent our better angels and bring beauty to our city by the lake?

Maybe, it begins by asking a simple question. How do I stay human? In a world of angry rhetoric, divisive politics, impatience, noise, growing disparity, self-absorption, and isolation, how do I stay human? The first steps could be embracing our humility, a search for meaning beyond our personal lives, and the resilience to find a moral compass that guides and directs us.

In his book Master of Change: The Case for Rugged Flexibility, Brad Stulberg wrote:

A lotus is an exquisite species of flower. Its colors are bright and striking, its petals open and inviting. What makes lotus flowers so fascinating is that they grow out of mud. They taught that suffering is like mud. But we can transform suffering into a beautiful and radiant lotus flower: compassion. It’s a transformation that does not usually happen when you are in the thick of a trying experience. But if you can keep showing up, over and over and over again, eventually you’ll get to the other side. Once you do, odds are you’ll have gained a fair share of compassion along the way. With each significant cycle of order, disorder, and reorder we endure, we become a bit kinder and softer towards others. If anything comes of suffering, it is this.

In the mud and suffering that seems to be everywhere we turn to look, where can we plant our lotus flowers? How can we keep showing up with a deeper sense of compassion and kindness? With each cycle of order and disorder, how do we reorder ourselves to endure and keep our commitments to bring more beauty to the greater community of Duluth in these difficult and challenging times?