CIRCUIT MAGAZINE ISSUE 53
What a time to be alive. Traditionally that statement is used in a celebratory way to champion success or memorable moments. Well, in this case, I can say that the first half of 2020 has certainly been memorable. We’ve had raging wildfires, melting polar caps, murder hornets, a global health pandemic, and social-political protests, that have at times turned violent. Did I mention that was all in the first half of the year? As we enter the latter, I have to believe that things will get better, however our profession lives by the creed, “hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.” As such, I do spend quite a bit of time thinking about, what’s next? I mean how do you top murder hornets? (With that said, I did just watch a video someone sent me of an eagle plucking a shark out of the ocean and carrying it away!)
will set us apart. In the future we will be able to look back with the benefit of hindsight, and be able to critique not only our own actions but the actions of others. However, at this moment we exist not in the future, or the past, but in the NOW.
As a community of protectors, we come into this field knowing that we will have to make sacrifices, and experience discomfort. We bring a measure of aggression with us, as it can be a necessary requirement to achieve our objectives. What we also must bring with us is the power to reason. If the previous 6 months have been any indication, 2020 still has some tricks up its sleeve; some that may challenge In all seriousness, every our current way of thinking or generation has had adversity, ideology. I ask that we all take and a byproduct of that is, it has produced stronger individuals that a moment to breath before we are battle tested. That’s actually react. When this is all over, the one thing we don’t want to be, is the one thing about experience, on the wrong side of history. good or bad, it can never be taken from you. These days we are encountering challenges Elijah Shaw left and right, but it is how we respond to those challenges which Editor
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