What we really could unite on.
Life is always changing and offering opportunities to expand your minds and evaluate meaning. Here in 2020 there are plenty of meaning opportunities life offers.
I often wonder how the continuation of polarization will affect our ability to problem solve, assert democratic processes, and apply the tenants of the US Constitution.
The recent process of nominating a Supreme Court Justice has been arbitrary and leading to mass confusion and rising tensions. This tenant needs to be clarified and agreed upon by constitutional scholars for parties and more importantly elected officials to abide by. This will allow the people who are represented by the elected officials to know what to expect year after year.
I remain increasingly concerned how we as a country can strive forward if tenants are waivering. The past five years have shown a need to solitify procedures and processes to uphold the tenants of our US Constitution.
Presently, it’s not about the nominee; it’s about knowing the process will not be politicized or highjacked. We need to come together and demand this right now. Allowing a party to conduct procedures in an arbitrary and capricious manner is harmful to our democracy. We should expect better. We need to unite and demand better. Complacency is harmful.
Ask your elected officials to stand for our Union and clarify the process for it to be outlined in an Amendment. Let’s get this done!
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The danger of jumping to conclusions without investigation, discernment, and grace.
In a time where there are loud calls to be woke, people shout in their night paralysis, peering with blurred vision, spitting misconceptions that lead to confusion and destruction. Unknowning of consciousness trying to condemn when the healing starts from within. Blinded by rage suffering with bleeding inner wounds flowing deeper than DNA, pain too much to bear so fanged teeth rip and snare those with open wounds crawling ahead of you.
When something heard, read, or viewed enrages you, take a moment before reacting. This will allow you to appropriately respond and be effective. Over the past decade I have witnessed how rage gets unleashed without thought. The desire to be heard is incredibly powerful and can either liberate or alienate. Seeking justice, activism, advocacy, or respect is an honorable hard road. Actions can have one lost on this journey drowning in rage or marching on empowered by rage. It’s not rage itself that is the villain it is how we understand it and use it that adjust our view and determines a path of destruction or a path to correction.
When the emotion of rage is building one can:
INVESTIGATE
*understand what is fueling it
*know what needs to be protected and corrected
*determine all the factors and facts
DISCERN
*weight investigation outcomes with own philosophical understanding
*seek wisdom and evaluate
*take in multiple prespectives without emotion and measure each with wisdom and philosophical understanding
GRACE
*extend empathy
*lead with humility
*proceed as you would want to be approached
We are all here sharing this one planet with all our imperfections striving for freedoms and respect. As minoritized individuals we will benefit to first look to lift each other up before tearing down. We will not always see eye to eye or have the same path, yet we can listen, share, and inform one another. Find the intersections of our paths that lead to collaboration and liberation.
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Our life experiences help construct our journey and taylor our outlook. Acknowledging that our experiences can generate differing perspectives on common topics, circumstances, and symbols demonstrates the importance of listening and developing understanding.
Nature is an amazing teacher. On hikes I have seen trees of the same species have branches shaped differently due to how and when the storm, sun, and weather interacted with them. If we could listen to these trees tell their story we will hear different views regarding the same storm. Similar two two humans of different ethnicities growing up in the same town may recall, reflect, and share their story differntly due to how life’s storms, privilege, disadvantages, and opportunities interacted with each over time.
We understand how two highschool students can carry their sentiments about the experience in the same school in very different ways; yet too often begrudge an individual for not having a mirror sentiment as you have when thinking about country, military, police, a flag, a sports team, an event, a time period.
When we learn to listen we learn to appreciate another’s existence. I wonder what would happen if we first respect the human being in all of us. When we can honor each other’s experiences and lead with respect how much richer and powerful our lives can be while sharing this one planet we all live on.
There are many topics that humans choose to allow themselves to become divided when discussing. It is unfortunate how many hold on to their idea or opinion as a symbol proving one’s existence. Arguments erupt as people stop listening and demand acceptance of one’s opinion or idea.
Listening to a conversation on 1A hosted by @npr Joshua Johnson, there was a deep discussion concerning veganism and food sources. During this broadcast where host Joshua Johnson presented multiple prespectives the guests dug in their heels about the world needing to go vegan. A discussion around people’s strong views leading to arguments and being off-putting also unfolded.
It was clear that some of the arguments were surface. Take the argument that cows emit a greenhouse gas. Well listening carefully to the doctor who studies sustainable food sources, it was clear the feed manufactured by humans was a major culprit to the cow emitting the greenhouse gas.
Food is a necessity for all hunan life. It is strange we have trouble uniting together to ensure equal access to food. It is heartbreaking to witness any one person asserting there is one healthy way to eat. Why does one have to put a particular label on the consumption of food? We could be more productive finding healthy ways to plant, harvest, raise, obtain, and supply our food.
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We tend to think of learning a new skill or “going back to school” as something you’d do when looking to change careers, or to upgrade within your current one.
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It’s important to always keep learning.
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“The day when you’ve publicly declared where you’re going to college, this day should be as glamorous and as exciting as those athletic signing days. This day should be on TV with fireworks, and celebrities, and folks sitting around just dying to know where you’re going to college.” —The First Lady on College Signing Day
Thank you First Lady Michelle Obama as always I am proud of you and your passion for youth. The sentiments expressed here mirror my own on how we need to respond and prepare for students deciding on which college they would like to attend. We as a society should promote and celebrate youth deciding on going to college in a celebratory way. Students should be acknowledge in public to declare where they will spend their post-secondary years learning and preparing to positively impact the world. Let’s work on building more events like this and stop only celebrating athletic signing days as the epitome of college acceptances. Yes we will hear in the news the occasional broadcast of the student who got into an or several Ivy league schools however this is done with a low expectation undertone it is reported from the perspective that the student is an exception and not that is was an expectation. As a society we send mixed messages regarding education and wonder why every student is not hungry to excel in school or willing to work harder to academically achieve. If we are interested in changing the outcome we need to change the input.
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whitehouse:
“If our society really wanted to solve the problem, we could; it’s just that it would require everybody saying, ‘this is important; this is significant.’ And, that we don’t just pay attention to these communities when a CVS burns, and we don’t just pay attention when a young man gets shot or has his spine snapped, but we’re paying attention all the time because we consider those kids our kids.” —President Obama on the situation in Baltimore
Agreed. The American society is full of complexities and it will take everyone caring, everyone willing to have the courage to truly understand the impact of all historical events that have brought us to this current time. Efforts need to to be continuous, genuine, and not in the face of a media moment. It takes all walks of life, abilities, expertise, and creativity to truly form “a more perfect union.”
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