The CAMINANTES
The Powerball® jackpot has reached an astonishing $1.8 Billion in the United States.
If such fortune came to us, we would do what many dream of: build a home, a place of grounding and belonging. Yes, we would also share some with family and friends. But from there, we would turn toward something far greater.
We would do (at least) two things:
First, we would establish a CAMINANTE fellowship for global citizenship projects. The fellows — the CAMINANTES — would receive funds equal to or above the living wage in their locality, freeing them to pursue projects as artists, educators, caregivers, organizers, walkers, and dreamers. This is about resourcing imagination as real work, dignified work.
Second, we would co-create spaces for reflection and regenerative thinking — perhaps a small campus, perhaps traveling summits, perhaps residencies. Places where people can pause, come together, and explore what it means to walk toward just and sustainable worlds.
Because $1.8 Billion, though unimaginable, is not wealth if it sits idle. Its true value would lie in circulation — in fueling imagination where resources are scarce, in seeding courage, in affirming that time spent dreaming of justice is not wasted but necessary work.
So yes, we may hold a lottery ticket. But our everyday bet is already placed: on people, their creativity, their resilience, and their ability to walk new worlds into being. That is the true jackpot.
