Civility

The communal oxygen we give others keeps them pertinent, relevant, and alive. However, when we stop supplying attention, they find their fix elsewhere.

America has the longest standing democracy in the world. As an experiment in participatory society, America asks its citizens every election to show up.

The smell of Loves Baby Soft wafting through my nostrils as a high school memory takes me back. Fleetwood Mac’s “Changes”  takes me to a breakup a year back.

We have roughly 28,000 days of life. That is 78 years to do something, anything or nothing. So, what do we do with all this time?

Before it was socially acceptable to place “matter”, we cared about our families, our neighbors, our community, our state our nation and our planet.

We know someone as we're living in this new world of heightened emotions that's dealing with loss, aloneness, and desperation. Or, that someone is us.

Traditional farm fields and pastures have been eliminated from the picture almost entirely. Grocery aisles have been planted instead of farm rows.

We need to be quiet enough to hear other’s opinions. We need to be quiet enough to hear our own thoughts. We give advice as well as receive it.

If we find the fortitude to acknowledge the genius in each other, invite all to the table, and think big, real change is attainable.

Small farmer, native Floridian, and champion for political CIVILITY – the act of attacking issues rather than people.