"If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
Atticus Finch, "To Kill a Mockingbird"
I just finished this book (must have read it in school, but that was too long ago!) I read and re-read this sentence over and over because it seems so appropriate to our time right now. As the days inch closer and closer to the election, this is a sentence I need to read and heed. It is so easy to get all hot and bothered by all that is going on but that serves no purpose at all. We are all human beings, trying to do our best as we spin around on this planet. We need to find more empathy for each other if things will ever get better in our world. What if we try to put ourselves in others' shoes when we disagree? What if we try to see things through eyes other than our own? Atticus Finch's advice to young Scout was worthwhile advice in the 1930's and it still is today. We need to love and respect each other. We need to empathize and compromise. We need to walk around in each others skin for a while. Love, heidi
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