After meeting and talking with people from other parts of the world, I figured out we are all the same flesh and blood.
Instead of spending time worrying about global issues for which I earn not a penny and burn thought cycles unnecessarily, I've decided to put aside my global connections and look at my local friends for whom real life is local (even though all local issues are interconnected and thus ... global!).
If my global friends bring intolerant issues to my attention, I'll address them. In the meantime, let's sit down, prop up our feet, put on the radio and chew on some good old-fashioned stories with real, local flavour ...
You might hear a story about a family who found ancient artifacts under a cliff by a river or old billy goats that'll make you laugh at their gruff, tough rammin' ways.
We may use this fancy electronic gizmo to record our ol' stories but the stories are still worth tellin', I tell ya.
Doesn't matter if your town has one traffic light or a thousand - there're local stories worth rememberin' here, dontcha think?
In our rememberin', we may see solutions to new problems in the way we solved old ones. Perhaps a Sun and an Oracle combinin' into one will remind us of a country store that became a grist mill, funeral home, and town hall in order to meet the people's needs as they rose and fell.
Who knows? Let's find out!
Every story is worth tellin', even the ones that break our hearts a second time ...
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