A Soulful Journey

“Do you know the old joke?   The Czechs came to the Soviets and asked them to help set up a Czech navy.   The Soviet Commissar said, “A Czech navy?   You’re landlocked, why do you need a navy?"   And the Czech said, “Well, you have a Department of Justice!” -Alan Dershowitz

In 1990 newly elected president, Vaclav Havel, said in his New Year’s speech to the Czech nation, “  People are surprised that the acquiescent, humiliated, skeptical Czechoslovakian people, who had, apparently no longer believed in anything, suddenly managed to find the enormous strength in the space of a few weeks to shake off the totalitarian system in a completely decent and peaceful way. “We ask where did the young people, in particular, who have never known any other system, find the source of political imagination, civic courage, and civic foresight.” In dark times, remember what humanity is capable of doing.   And it all begins with an idea.