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This should be an opportunity to share ideas

I am hoping these blogs are opportunities for all of us to sit around a table and take our turn at the ideas in play.  Just respect each other’s opinion.  There is a box below the blog or comment for you to use. 

Trying out an idea in an open forum is fun.  Well, not always fun.  Sometimes a responsibility. I realize that it can be uncomfortable.  These are deep waters.  You show courage when you share your ideas, not least because all thinking is a struggle in a twilight world.  And not all of us are exactly professional wordsmiths., 

We get things wrong.  We expose our ignorance.  We do not actually say what we intend.  Reading latter what I have written , I find it wasn’t actually what I wanted to say—and not what I think today.  Or it was too brutal and insensitive.   Life is a first draft written on a broken keyboard.  If you try to be as true as you can to what you think, I respect you, applaud you and wish you well in what is sometimes a serious “battlefield.” 

For ultimately, we write and speak because we think it matters, because we believe that this is what living in a democracy, living not existing, is all about.