Recovery was under way in communities last week which suffered from lawless, mindless, and opportunistic individuals who seized the occasion to cause chaos with looting and property damage.
The fabric of society requires we must be at our best to support each other, have faith and confidence in the goodness of others, and understand our neighbors and those not just like us. It takes work and dedication of the majority of us and usually we succeed. In recent years, however, we have allowed our society to be polarized, to lack confidence in our government, and to careen to the negative side of situations and not the positive. Unity is better than discord. Nonetheless,
The police seek force. Perhaps law enforcement should be known as peacekeepers and protectors without the use of the force. In fact, that is their charge and perceived motto: Peacekeepers.
Certainly columnist John Whitehead continually makes comments on the perception of the police and society. Relevant quotes from his piece this week: “…What is unfolding before us is not a revolution. The looting, the burning, the rioting, the violence is anti-revolution….(George) Floyd is yet another victim of a broken system of policing that has placed we the people at the mercy of militarized cops who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to serve and protect.”
Succinctly, we all must do better, do less finger-pointing, take more personal responsibility, cast aside the thought we must be right all the time, and see the best light in other individuals.
Clear and concise, week 23:
One more week is order of inspirational messages from dark chocolate wrappers following one reminder burst that partner is a noun and not a verb, which eliminates the words partnering and partnered from clarity language:
• Be with those who make you laugh.
• Don’t talk about it, just be about it.
• (Repeating): Be fearless and authentic!