Thank you for another ruthlessly honest reality check. I see only one way forward, not for all of us, but for those of us who have the inner and outer resources to meet the challenges at a local level: Grow Gardens; Grow Community; Grow Awareness—by learning, teaching, healing, and creating, and by resisting oligarchic tyranny mindfully, strategically, and relentlessly, even at the risk of our lives. As the Jamaican singer Jimmy Cliff once sang, “I’d rather be a free man in my grave/Than living as a puppet or a slave…”