FROM OUR DESK

An Ode to Hope

The scale of the challenges we face are huge and the headlines haunt me (Climate change, racial injustice, political division & poverty … to name a few). These problems fuel an internal question that has been brewing inside my skull for years …

WHAT CAN I REALLY DO?

Right now it feels like I’m doing it alone – feeling crushing guilt over my (in)actions and helplessness to change a system that is so obviously broken.

I’m not a politician, an influencer, a celebrity, or the CEO of a major corporation. I’m just one person who cares – a lot. What hope can I have to change the world? What can I do when the problem feels so big and I feel so very small?

We can join forces. We can do better bit by bit. We can ask for a better world from the people who pull the strings. We can make a big impact in the tiny spaces of our day. We can be the change.

Because capitalism got us into this mess. And maybe, just maybe – we the CUSTOMERS can get us out.

– Jess Lybeck, Co-Founder of Remark