Fabric Podcast

What’s wrong with compromise? Other than it is less than either of us was hoping for and it seldom happens? The obvious option doesn’t look any better: win/lose has never been the way forward. Just watch how it plays out in politics. As individuals and as society we need to explore what is better than compromise and what it takes to get there. Join us in imagining this calmer, counter-cultural vision as the election rages around us. 
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Citizens can create the future for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children. It's what we are always doing, whether we know it or not. And if we don’t take our citizenship seriously, no one may want the future we leave them with. Apathy, discouragement, and hopelessness are rampant in younger generations and they have seen little to make them feel differently.  It’s time to change that, fellow citizens. Let’s listen deeply and act. This is about thought and action for November 3 and beyond.
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Feel like a stranger in your own land? The marginalized have for centuries, and now many with privilege feel it too. Is citizenship a game where we pretend we get along, or is it what we've missed long enough to bring us to this place? With an election three weeks away, we're at a critical juncture of realizing what it means to be a citizen and of acting on it. 
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Who doesn’t want to be sure? Especially about big decisions.  But as sure as you may be, isn’t there some twinge of not-sure? Certainty is a tempting goal, but it seldom comes. Yet we act as if we have it a lot. It's an animal on the loose. 
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Like all the animals, comparison has a purpose, but feed it and let it loose and it will eat you for lunch with constant questions like Am I better or worse? Do I have as much? Achieved as much? Life is not about comparison. It’s about…well, what is the alternative?
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You don't really HATE anything, right? Sure, you use the word once in a while, but you just don’t really like them or it. Maybe, but hatred is a sneaky critter that knows how to put on nice clothes and say the right things so it can grow undercover. Needless to say, it isn’t a good bedfellow with love. It might be good to take a look inside to see what may be crowding love out of your heart.
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If you love it, why not have it? Depends on what you mean by ‘have.’ If having means relationship, great. If it means possessing, then there's a problem. Attachment is an animal we feed, and its clenched fists squeeze the life out of what we love. 
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During times of stress, when the world and life seem heavy, it is important to do what we can to show up with our true selves. Everything else we hope to impact and deal with rides on this. But there is a threat to your true self within you. It is the animals you have been feeding. It’s not just you, it’s all of us. And it isn’t just now, this is a lifetime challenge. And it’s one you can handle. So what are these animals and how do they work? 
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