It's funny; I was listening to 1A this morning while running errands. The first hour included an interview with Alexandra Pelosi, whose latest documentary covers people who participated in the January 6 insurrection; and Vidhya Ramalingam of Moonshot, an organization that aims to "to build solutions for one of the most pressing challenge…
It's funny; I was listening to 1A this morning while running errands. The first hour included an interview with Alexandra Pelosi, whose latest documentary covers people who participated in the January 6 insurrection; and Vidhya Ramalingam of Moonshot, an organization that aims to "to build solutions for one of the most pressing challenges facing communities around the world: violent extremism." (https://the1a.org/segments/aspen-ideas-festival-insurrectionists-among-us/). It was a really good show that offered glimmers of hope for our country.
It also underscored for me how important it is to find community close to home. It can be an antidote to loneliness, a way to build connections with your neighbors outside the framework of partisan politics and do something positive and useful for the place you live. As I put it yesterday in a Bulwark comment, "Go out and do something nice for someone else, pick up trash in your neighborhood, do whatever it takes to remind you of your connection to others in a positive way."
I learned to live this after the 2016 election. It has saved me from despair
It's funny; I was listening to 1A this morning while running errands. The first hour included an interview with Alexandra Pelosi, whose latest documentary covers people who participated in the January 6 insurrection; and Vidhya Ramalingam of Moonshot, an organization that aims to "to build solutions for one of the most pressing challenges facing communities around the world: violent extremism." (https://the1a.org/segments/aspen-ideas-festival-insurrectionists-among-us/). It was a really good show that offered glimmers of hope for our country.
It also underscored for me how important it is to find community close to home. It can be an antidote to loneliness, a way to build connections with your neighbors outside the framework of partisan politics and do something positive and useful for the place you live. As I put it yesterday in a Bulwark comment, "Go out and do something nice for someone else, pick up trash in your neighborhood, do whatever it takes to remind you of your connection to others in a positive way."
I learned to live this after the 2016 election. It has saved me from despair