Civility

Last night Jaime and I had a wonderful dinner with a new friend, Sandy Griffin. Her mission is connecting people. So many people live disconnected from neighbor, family and community. Talking with her linked well with a book I am enjoying by Os Guinness - "The Case for Civility". Polarization, culturally and ideologically, entices the best of us to erect walls that alienate. Guinness points out how "living with our deepest differences has become one of the world's greats issues." In the context of great difference we desperately need civility.

Civility toward one another, for the outcast and the oppressed is what makes America great. To quote Guinness: "Freedom, equal opportunity, the rule of law, mutual responsibility, representative government, the separation of powers, freedom of religion, freedom of speech. freedom of assembly, justice grounded in due process and the presumption of innocence, universal public education - as words these ideals trip of the tongue lightly; but as principles, they form the bedrock on which the greatness of America has been built."

Let us become passionate about civility!