About The Sunny Way
Why are so many brilliant, healthy, and educated women and men walking around feeling powerless and trapped when they are among the most powerful people who ever lived?
How can we get unstuck from fear and despair over an uncertain future? How do we free ourselves so we can create a world that works?
To me, looking into these questions is the most interesting and most important thing in the world. And so, with a group of dedicated friends, I started The Sunny Way.
I've noticed that our ideas about the future tend to fall into one of two camps: Camp Doom'n'Gloom, where futility, nihilism, and/or anger at the powers that be rule the day; and Camp Consumer, full of those who think that we can shop and recycle our way out of our predicaments. The first is overly dour; the second is uselessly shallow. I think they're both missing the boat.
Our problems ARE enormous -- there's no question about that. But the proper response is neither despair nor blind optimism.
Rather, we need a rational reason to be optimistic, and we need to take action. Because once we break inertia's spell and start moving in the direction of what's possible, we see good things happening all over as well as opportunities to contribute. This creative, collaborative, evolutionary process is how we can actually make a new world.
We're not calling for Pollyanna-ish silliness. We want to get the ball rolling in Reality, that crazy-making, tumultuous realm of political intrigue, horrifying inequalities, and old rules that just aren't changing fast enough. Our task is not an easy one. It's up to us to create a clean, fair, and just world -- the kind of world we all say we want to live in. And in order to create it, we need to grow the hell up.
What does growing up mean? A short list:
- developing spines
- laying down useless old addictions
- doing what we say we're going to do
- being more interested in moving forward than in being right
- allowing ourselves to be uncomfortable
- getting physically stronger
- getting mentally stronger
- learning how to feel and express emotions without inflicting them on the rest of the world
- working together unselfconsciously
- figuring out how to be full partners as men and women
- reaching across ideological ruts to create new solutions
- and many more manifestations of maturity and wisdom in action
Tall order, I know. That's why those of us who feel called to grow in this way, and to grow the world around us, have got to do it together.
We created The Sunny Way as a platform to help us do all this, and I hope you'll stick around and help us out.
