Our Senate is balanced evenly. A third of our state legislatures are poised in balance. The list of things in delicate balance is rather long and, I believe, full of meaning for those who will take a moment to read the deep language of it. We have all been a party to the raising of this moment of calm balance. In mathematics, there is something called Chaos Theory that is useful to meteorologists in describing the impossible complexity of predicting the weather over the long term.
Small things have great force when systems are in fragile balance.
I think of that famous example when I think of the butterfly ballot in Florida and the tremendous effect this little thing has had on our lives. Well, I believe each of us is in that same position now to do good or ill, as the world is dynamically poised between two futures, and it is telling us so with all the signs it can muster. Well, they indeed are differently described for each of us, but they bear some common features. There is a future whose common aspects are the irresponsible use of the world's resources and the resulting degradation of the health of the planet and its creatures. This sad future is well started.