The Lazlo Kovaks Story - An Online Novel by Mike Robertson

Preface
(Missouri, 2012)

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“It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.”
~~ J. Krishnamurti

Fresh snow falls quietly all around us as I write this preface at the very moment we've all been waiting for. The Change has come. It is the most profound experience I, or I think any one of us, have ever had. I can't describe it. I don't need to because you have felt it too.

Trouble is, I don't know if it's worked out the way we hoped. Not yet. We'll know soon, I think. But as of this moment there's no sign of Lazlo and of course Adam is no longer with us, and he could have told us. So for now it's just the three of us. Lizzie sits in the corner knitting. Her mouth is working like she may be singing, or maybe praying. Probably singing. Nothing seems to faze her. Lila sits across the table from me and she smiles. She is a comfort too. No, more than that. A source of joy and hope for me now. Keller has not returned and I can only hope he is still alive. We ache for Adam and wish Lazlo would appear.

We can't tell yet if the Change was the result of the Gathering or it is merely the effect of the earth finally leaving the beam. Maybe both. If the Gathering has failed, then we have all failed. We were on a knife's edge for so long. And now, either way, there's no turning back. If we have fallen, if we failed ... I can't even imagine how much worse things will become. But if we made it, well I can hardly imagine that either. Imagine a new beginning for us all. Fear and degradation and slavery to hidden masters melting away like so much dirty snow. Imagine humans no longer driven by greed and ambition, no longer opposed to each other, finding fault, wanting what the other has, indulging in aggression and violence. No longer living in fear. Imagine.

Okay, I'm done for now. I've done my part, written the story best I can, just as so many others have also done. I just hope it was worth it. So I'm writing this now to encourage you to remember the story. How it was, how it happened. Either way it goes, tell your children. Encourage them to find and focus on the best part of human nature. Encourage them to believe that we humans do have it in us to survive, and better. That we are tougher and smarter than almost any of us expect or have good reason to believe. That we are spirits still growing and connecting with one another, the aggregate faces of a single being struggling to remember itself, and that the source of all our intelligence, of our very existence, is the same for each of us. So, if you didn't get to read the story before the Change, or in case you want your children to read it, here it is. This then is how it was ....

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