Dreams Belong to the Now: Time to Commence ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Dreams Belong to the Now: Time to Commence ~ The Imaginative Conservative

All over the country this spring graduating seniors are being told that the future is before them, that they are the future. This is heady but dangerous talk. The future is not a place or a being. You can’t get there from here or be there except through a series of fulfilled nows. This is a splendid day for you, the students of Mesa Preparatory Academy—a day, a moment, of passage. In all the ways of life (“cultures” as they are called) that I’ve…