What Will We Do While We Wait?
Especially,
If We Want to Advance Holistically
(And Well Beyond the Election)?
Take Our
Second Step:
Mend
Our Existing Storytelling
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
To Mend,
mended, mending, mends:
a verb (action not just a sentiment)
1. to free from faults or defects: such as:
a. to improve in manners/morals: REFORM;
b. to set right: CORRECT:
c. to put into good shape or
working order again: patch-up: REPAIR;
d. to restore to health: CURE;
e. to improve or strengthen by
negotiation or conciliation
–Something such as a relationship
–Used chiefly in the phrase,
“Mend fences.” REINFORCE.
2. to make amends/atonement for ________.
Who else can do it better?
If Not You, Who? If Not Now, When?
MEND What?
Two Things at Once
Our storytelling
… and in so doing …
our platonic, loving, familial, neighborly
and communal relations.
Our local, state and national schools,
businesses, municipalities and police agencies.
Our divisions, differences, disparities and diseases.
Our rifts betwixt political parties and states.
Our racial, religious and cultural discord.
Our judicial, food, housing and
health life-care services.
Our environment.
MEND How?
By Doing Two Things
At Once
Start sharing stories, again
… and in so doing …
realize the abundant reasons we have
to be thankful.
Do the really hard work of
negotiation, conciliation and reconciliation.
Reform, Correct, Repair, Cure and
Reinforce our Civil Rights and Responsibilities.
Work on the six “Rs.”
No, not reading, writing ‘n arithmetic.
(Though those would be good, too.)
But Remedy, Reparation, Reform,
Restitution, Relief, Recovery.
Past, present and emerging.
Mend, Piece, Expand
And Again,
Two Things at Once
Mend, piece, expand our story~quilt
… and in so doing …
revive and extend our community.
Trim, edit, sew, thread and weave
our stories together
… and in so doing …
Honor our fundamental civil, cultural,
legal and spiritual values.
(Which we abandoned and violated
too often, too long and too much, already.)
Advocate to advance
Our Six Life-Care Services
for all to enjoy, equally and equitably.
… And …
Create and participate
in the ultimate advocacy.
Further Call to Action: Let's Do It Again!
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