Barack Obama

A ripple effect is a situation where, like the ever expanding ripples across water when an object is dropped into it, an effect from an initial state can be followed outwards incrementally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_effect

Yet sometimes thoughts, words and deeds can lay dormant only to reawaken in another time and place.

It was a very good read.

Thank you Thinkingabout, there is indeed hope.