11.05.2018

In November, people are good to each other.

You know that part in the Cynthia Rylant book that goes In November, people are good to each other. 

We are the people.
We are We the people.

I've been trying to think of this election, of the manic and incessant rhetoric, as a passing cloud. I expect fall to bleed color from everything, but not the words of citizens, of neighbors, to draw blood. How our kids talk about and treat each other is directly related to how the adults around them talk about and treat each other. We can make jagged steps forward toward celebrated ideals without making each other feel awful.
We voted over the weekend, turning the clocks forward and hopefully turning the nation, and our neighborhood, forward too.

It's a gift to get a say in the matter, really. May we respond to such extravagant freedom with love and care and sacred responsibility. May we respond, also, to the election results, and more importantly to each other - to neighbors and family and friends - that way too.

In November, people are good to each other. 

2 comments:

rht said...

Amen!

Poppy John said...

Jenni Baby,
Your posts are filled with love EVERY month.

VOTING...Here in West Virginia it has become simple. The other day, we received what is called a "robo call". It told us how to vote...making everything "easy peasy". My hope would be that you folks in Ohio would get one of these "robo calls" in future elections...very helpful!

L2A