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1: A thread about normalcy and accepting each other’s differences - stick with me here. I went to my neighborhood beer and burger joint this afternoon. The owner has converted the inside to a gym for himself and employees. Always filled with fire fighters. Today we have a ..
Great conversation how life. Love. The pursuit of happiness. His troubled business but his desire for everyone to be safe and for everything to return to normal. I made a couple cracks about getting a beer in before the grocery store because it is my only sparse minutes...
Away from my kids. A breath of fresh air. A reprieve. And then he made a right leaning comment about the state of our country. It took me a moment and a couple deep breaths to gauge how to respond. My immediate impulse was argumentative discourse, but I went another way...
Instead I mentioned how I know how it feels to lose. Shit I felt it 4 years ago and all I can hope for now is that with my guy leading policy is enacted that makes all of our lives better. And if it isn’t at the end of 4, I’m open to hearing from others. He poured himself a..
Beer and said “I hope so too brother. Think what we all have to get back to us realizing that no matter which way the political pendulum swings, we’re all just standing for the flag. And we’ve got to do better about caring for one another.” We sat in silence for a moment...
I thought about a few different directions to contradict or counteract this “enemy” from the right, but felt a calm sense of normalcy having a regular discussion with someone who didn’t see eye to eye with me. He could tell I was thinking....and he leaned in...
And with his mask still firmly planted on his face (which he had pulled down for the presumed MAGA patron before me) he said - I’ll tell you one thing, no matter what you’re thinking about right now, these garlic fries with make whatever is troubling you better for right now...
My takeaway is this. I’ve been the first to say there’s black and white. With us or against us. But the reality of life and our existence is that everything lives in Grey. We’ve been fractured as a people and we assume the absolute worst without knowing the reality of those..
With whom we fight. This was an eye opening experience and one I’ll not soon forget. And the next time I impulsively want to attack someone for not seeing shit the way I do I’ll take a moment, breathe in the air, and think about these garlic fries...
Because nothing will ever change how disgusted I’ve been and will always be about so much, but nothing will also change the fact that If we don’t find commonality then we’re destined for failure. Also still f*ck ted cruz (he also agreed). Peace 
