This is my new personal mantra--the advice I would give everyone, especially our national government right now.

How did we get into the intractable place we have arrived as a country, as the human race?1) We have not stood our ground, or even known what our values (as opposed to our "doctrine") are.2) We have not acknowledged or negotiated the fundamentalism by which each of is gripped (that means me and you...all of us.)3) We have not had the good sense or humanity to know that in public disc...