It's been a minute.
My 1st born is almost done with high school, and she'll be off to college in the fall.
We are coming through the pandemic tunnel, and seeing signs of less virulence, still highly contagious, lack of any remaining tolerance or patience with this, and a desperation to move on. Can I tell my kiddo it's ok to sit in a coffee shop, sipping a latte and studying? That's something I definitely took for granted. And loved doing. Because even in healthy, positive households, confinement to room or home was not healthy for anyone.
We are at a crossroads. If we expect people to act enlightened, focused on progression and a healthy environment and higher education, then we must have everyone on board. We cannot leave half of the population behind. We cannot expect a single parent to embrace a rich politician's take when her child suffers from food insecurity. We cannot expect to see eye to eye ethically with people so much more disadvantaged than others, that they can never get to the subject at hand, when there are impassable mountains of socioeconomic obstacles.
That's how it is. When we put equity first, things might change for the better. But even basic information and resources are hard to come by for a huge part of our country's population, let alone the world's. The gaps are vast. One man's pastime political banter is another man's destruction and demise.
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