An opportunity for descent

As so many studies have shown us, and as the Chinese character for crisis even translates, crises are not necessarily scary and bad, they are also opportunities. Opportunity to do things differently, to choose a different course. They have the potential remind us of who and what we truly are: kind, loving, social, generous, care-taking, responsible creatures (not the greedy, selfish, violent, hoarding visions of ourselves we have been told we are by media, politics, and even some social sciences!)