I was in my favorite watering hole last weekend watching little kids and even babies enjoying the place with their parents, which would never have been the case not that long ago. Years back, a buddy and I found a new-at-the-time brewpub that had opened right around when smoking was banned in bars. So, young families started gathering with toddlers in tow during Happy Hours, and because of that my friend and I started calling the place the Baby Bar. It was a cultural shift and a very different experience that’s now utterly common and rather sweet.

Last weekend reminded me that change happens constantly. Sometimes very minor, like babies in bars, and sometimes seismic. We’re experiencing one of those seismic moments right now. We’re only at the beginning of a major change in how government will function, or not, and there’s no way of knowing how the story will end, but this seismic shift too will inevitably end, or change. Surviving and thriving change is up to us.