Six months after the lyrics for the Choose To Unite song came through, with the song and music video produced and posted on YouTube, I pause to reflect on some of the meanings in the lyrics as originally written:
Let us follow the cue of the honeybee
And work together in community
We're at a crucial moment – it's no mystery –
If humans don't unite, we are history.
The phenomenon of the disappearing honeybees represents a crisis, one that most people are probably not quite aware of the actual magnitude. Albert Einstein is reported to have said, "If honeybees become extinct, human society will follow in four years."
In a parallel way, it is becoming increasingly visible that our country, which has been in a downward spiral for years, is in deep crisis. We are now at a threshold, a potential turning point. Things will go one of two ways: we continue to go down, or we change the trajectory. This is why the message of change is so important and why this particular election, at this moment in history, is so important: it determines the course of our nation's future and our place in the world.
