Thank you penning this article. Having spent few of my wednesday in Santa Clara awakin cirle, in Bangalore and elsewhere as as Karma circle, I have witnessed the power of ripples you refer eloquently above. Also I understand your yearning behind story of now, ... That's the piece I would love to see more of! Take a look at rallyforrivers.org or cauverycalling.org some of them demonstrate the power of now. For such immediacy of the ripples or fierce urgency of now, the story of transformation has to be deep too as the nature and earth demands it now of us in the next decade or two. Cross sharing as I am part of both groups and feel that urgency of now so deeply especially on fundamental matters such as poverty and ecology