So this is Detroit.

You're entering a kind of parallel urban universe, a Detroit rarely seen in news coverage

of the city.

This pocket of innovation and vigor flourished within more familiar recent pictures of decline.

And right in the middle of it all has been Grace Lee Boggs, the Chinese American philosopher,

civil rights legend, and social visionary.

She's just celebrated her 100th birthday.

So we're revisiting our 2011 pilgrimage to Detroit to meet her.

We discovered her at her home, surrounded by joyful people, recreating their corners of

the world.

Their innovations are now ironically struggling to continue amidst Detroit's economic rebirth.

Yet to meet Grace Lee Boggs again, together with her community, is to gain perspective on

all of our work, to reimagine and navigate the most challenging dynamics of our time.

There's something about people beginning to seek solutions by doing things for themselves

that we have that capacity to create the world a new.

Possibilities are just what they are.

You're only limited by your own imagination.

I'm not a designer, but no doubt I have thoughts, I have visions, and they've been put

in the plant.

It's just not a warm and fuzzy garden.

You know, we're just not just growing food.

We're rediscovering ourselves and redeveloping our identity.

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