Thank you for this. I'm signing up for a volunteer shift at the food bank, and helping with groundskeeping at my kids school this weekend. I'm starting the book my civic book club is reading (Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker) and I'm committing to daily walks and noticing nature (even though temps are still in the high 80's here).
I like your suggestions, but I think one of the hardest parts for me is that I don't feel like I'm occupying the same reality as a good portion of the population around me here in Florida. The most right-leaning people in my circle don't believe in man-made climate change, but they believe in man-made hurricanes. They believe the world is flat. They don't believe that dinosaurs existed. It's almost like, if something is known as a fact by the "mainsteam media" then it is automatically discarded as Fake News. I miss the days when not agreeing with someone politically just meant you disagreed about where to spend public money, how to collect it and from whom, or what issues were a priority-- not disagreeing about reality. I honestly don't know what to do with that.
Thank you for this. I'm signing up for a volunteer shift at the food bank, and helping with groundskeeping at my kids school this weekend. I'm starting the book my civic book club is reading (Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker) and I'm committing to daily walks and noticing nature (even though temps are still in the high 80's here).
I like your suggestions, but I think one of the hardest parts for me is that I don't feel like I'm occupying the same reality as a good portion of the population around me here in Florida. The most right-leaning people in my circle don't believe in man-made climate change, but they believe in man-made hurricanes. They believe the world is flat. They don't believe that dinosaurs existed. It's almost like, if something is known as a fact by the "mainsteam media" then it is automatically discarded as Fake News. I miss the days when not agreeing with someone politically just meant you disagreed about where to spend public money, how to collect it and from whom, or what issues were a priority-- not disagreeing about reality. I honestly don't know what to do with that.
I added Civic Solitude to my TBR :)