We are human. We are bipeds: we walk on two feet (bi: two, ped: foot). In fact, we are the only true bipeds on Earth. We are a highly cerebral creature. No other animal matches humans in thought and engineering. Our potential for coordination and cooperation are entirely unique.

Homo sapiens means wise man. Yet, we have followed our destinies to a place that wise people wouldn’t go. Perhaps we should be named Homo confusum— confused man. We are prisoners in jails of our own making. Our systems are not sustainable. In the context of evolution, we have deviated so far from our selves that we have forgotten where we came from.

Our capacity for harm is also unmatched. We hurt each other. We pollute and plague. Most humans on Earth today are sick in virtually every category of human health.

But potential is equal and opposite. We are poets. We are storytellers. We love, and we weep. Our capacity for love far exceeds the limits of the human heart.

What harm we have caused, we can produce an equal and opposite force of healing.