What Would I Change About the Current Society?

If I could change just one thing about the way we live today, I would soften us.

I would slow down the rush. I would quiet the noise. I would ask us to listen more—to each other, to the wind, to the animals who no longer come out to play because the world has grown too loud for their gentle hearts.

I would bring back the reverence we once held for the Earth—not as a resource to extract, but as a living, breathing home that gives us everything. I would teach our children that a tree is not just a tree, but a storyteller. That water remembers. That fire has feelings. And that the soil beneath our feet once held the footprints of ancestors who walked with care.

We’ve forgotten how to dance with the world.

And so, in the smallest way I know how, I’ve tried to do something about it.

Together with a kindred creative spirit named Sora Mei, I’ve been working on a book series called A Song and Dance For Mother Earth. It’s not a lecture. It’s not a manual. It’s simply a story told in the old way—softly, with truth nestled in wonder. The first book, The Day Fire Disappeared, asks a simple question: What if Fire left us because it was tired of how we treated it?

The series isn’t just for children. It’s for the part of us grown-ups that still believes we can be better. That it’s not too late.

So if I could change society, I wouldn’t do it with shouting.
I’d do it with stories.
Stories that remind us how to be kind again.
Stories that help us remember how to listen.
Stories that teach us to dance with the Earth—not on it.