Monica Maeckle is a glass-half-full kind of gal. 

How else to take her pronouncement about the Monarch butterfly on Tuesday night, that their ”migration is endangered, but the butterfly is not”?

It feels a little like saying “The Louvre Museum is burning to the ground, but we’ll still have great digital pictures of all the art.”

Frankly, I don’t know quite how I felt after Maeckle spoke as part of the i3 (ideas that inform & inspire) lecture series.