Fringes

If you sometimes feel like you’re on the fringe, fear not, for fringes are fabulous places. Roadside fringes are where poppies bloom and hedge fringes are where birds nest. It is on the fringes that change is catalysed. The mainstream is like a neatly tended grass lawn, where everything and everyone unorthodox are regarded as invasive weeds, to be strangled, mowed or poisoned. Yet even manicured gardens have their fringes, where biodiversity thrives. So too in society, where activists, entrepreneurs and changemakers breathe new life into dysfunctional ways and outdated ideas. So be on the fringe and be proud.

— Wayne Visser

From Purpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living, Volume 3. Buy on Lulu ↗