We are having a party on April 17th to talk about what we can do to help our Island as we all stand at the brink of economic and environmental failure.
Is this situation just something that the Government and the farmers work out or is it a situation that we all need to help with? if we vote our farmers off the Island - what does that do to us? Who do we become? What do we deserve?
Here is a remarkable poem written by an employee at Interface who also woke up to see that he was making unthinking choices that would affect his unborn child. I have found nothing else that reminds me so powerfully of the choices before us.
Tomorrow’s Child
Without a name; an unseen face
and knowing not your time nor place
Tomorrow’s Child, though yet unborn,
I met you first last Tuesday morn.
A wise friend introduced us two,
and through his shining point of view
I saw a day that would see;
a day for you, but not for me.
Knowing you has changed my thinking,
for I never had an inkling
That perhaps the things I do
might someday, somehow, threaten you.
Tomorrow’s Child, my daughter-son,
I’m afraid I’ve just begun
To think of you and of your good,
though always having known I should.
Begin I will to weigh the cost
of what I squander; what is lost
If ever I forget that you
will someday come to live here too.
Glen Thomas - employee Interface
