Prelude: It’s Not Going To Be OK

It is not going to be OK.

There, I said it. I feel like apologizing, as if it is a topic of conversation we’ve agreed not to bring up in polite company. But that’s the arrogance of believing we’re all on the same page, and false hope that every reader is also bowled over by the fact that it is not going to be OK.

Shock, devastation, confusion, anger, resolve – these are the emotions my bewildered brain expects to see in every face around me based on what we know is happening to our planet at this very moment. Those emotions are remarkably absent from the faces I see on the street and in stores, in the faces of people going about their everyday lives. The world seems to glide forward somewhat normally, we are still at war, the stock market is booming, corporate profits are high, and it is most…