The Transformative Power of Talking
Talking can be blah-blah-blah, right? I do that sometimes. Guilty as sin of just rabbiting on about nothing. Speeches so rambling and tangential that I sometimes forget where the bloody hell I started off. But talk, dialogue, communication, free, open, courteous and respectful, can take on really big picture issues and walk through them, around them, over and under them, to work out practical solutions that ordinary people can achieve in the real world. Not that bean counter bunk that I would have referred to elsewhere in this blog but hard thought out arguments that reveal what previously would have been hidden. From there, new insight can provide the means for remedy. Reading about this story from Chicago (see link, below), where good people regularly come together in a suburban barber shop to have their say about some heavy duty stuff (for example, domestic violence, rape), I think of how essential it is for the community to be informed, to know, and to be able to act collectively.
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