We all know people who feel like they “missed the boat” — who go to hated jobs every day, live in places they don’t like, or put up with relationships that are not healthy for them. Then again, sometimes it seems that everything conspires to keep us “on the train”, so we put off adventuring out to sea. Both individuals and communities experience changes; the waves sweep them overboard and into transitions they didn’t anticipate, plan for, or want. In this service, Nicolette Toussaint and Michaela Sievers reflect on changes that, in the luxury of hindsight, turned out to be fortuitous.
