The Real Caped Crusaders....

"Only talent filled with humility is of real use to humanity"
is the April 2 quotation on my Brahma Kumaris perpetual calendar....ah, the wisdom of that man - and the number of years I have read that platitude (I have had the calendar for over ten years) and barely paused to think what it might mean. Well, there is a time for everything, they say, a season and a reason, and that time is now. The new hero is not a celebrity in a Boss suit nor a Balenciaga gown, nor gold watches, diamonds and pearls. He or she does not fly over cities by night nor scale tall buildings, busting drug cartels and stopping equally glamorous gangsters in their tracks - though the new hero does engage in shift work. He dresses for the part in visors and masks, gowns and gloves, halting the progress of the invisible - to us - enemy, and caring for the distressed. He works in a grocery outlet, stacking shelves and serving food and medicine to all comers. He keeps the communication wires buzzing and the power supplies humming. He drives buses, delivers post, unblocks drains, regulates traffic. One day, it will all revert to the old norm. but for now, I bask in the succession of the real caped - and masked - crusaders.