Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
How do we treat each other?
Tonight, on my drive home from Wichita, I had two disparate experiences back-to-back.
Pulling on to HWY 96, I glanced over and saw a car with two men in the lane next to me. As I looked at them, the passenger noticed me looking and flipped me a double bird.
About a mile later, after merging onto HWY 35, I again looked over and saw a man and a woman driving in the lane next to me. I smiled at the woman as she caught my eye. She started to turn away, automatically, before she noticed me smiling.
With a start, she turned back toward me and gifted me a deep, genuine, beautiful smile in return.
I could tell she was surprised that I had been smiling at her. But she was pleasantly surprised, and it made my drive home very nice. I hope theirs was too.
Pulling on to HWY 96, I glanced over and saw a car with two men in the lane next to me. As I looked at them, the passenger noticed me looking and flipped me a double bird.
About a mile later, after merging onto HWY 35, I again looked over and saw a man and a woman driving in the lane next to me. I smiled at the woman as she caught my eye. She started to turn away, automatically, before she noticed me smiling.
With a start, she turned back toward me and gifted me a deep, genuine, beautiful smile in return.
I could tell she was surprised that I had been smiling at her. But she was pleasantly surprised, and it made my drive home very nice. I hope theirs was too.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
A new blog
I deleted this blog a few months ago. I deleted it because I was considering running for public office and I was worried that some opinions I'd shared on this blog wouldn't be broadly palatable.
Well, I'm not running for public office-yet. And the more I've thought about it, the more I believe I need to say some of the things I was worried about saying. So I'm going to. If I've ever felt called to anything, I'm feeling called now. Called to join the public discourse. Called to be a strong voice for respect and for humanity. I have opinions on government policy, but I'm motivated right now to help push the way we discuss it.
Join me here for those moments when I'm taken with the need to say something about the state of our world today.
I hope you will.
Well, I'm not running for public office-yet. And the more I've thought about it, the more I believe I need to say some of the things I was worried about saying. So I'm going to. If I've ever felt called to anything, I'm feeling called now. Called to join the public discourse. Called to be a strong voice for respect and for humanity. I have opinions on government policy, but I'm motivated right now to help push the way we discuss it.
Join me here for those moments when I'm taken with the need to say something about the state of our world today.
I hope you will.
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