What if we are doing all the right things at all the wrong times?
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As part of open data week, we invited 14 friends and collaborators to dinner to discuss civic issues not in terms of problems and solutions, but in terms of beauty. - Chris Chavez
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Now, more than ever, we need to engage openly and fiercely with everyone.
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Our political reality is sad and outrageous and the source of its current corrupted state of affairs isn’t something we can offload onto others. I’m convinced that our current civil conflict falls in the lineage of spiritual battles that pits a fearful, shrinking heart against a courageous, expansive love.
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If David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, and Joseph McNeil, the four men of Greensboro, North Carolina, who pioneered the sit-in, chose to sit in their living rooms, or in the cafes that would welcome them with open arms, they would have merely been sitting.
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Hospitality of mind allows us to host strange ideas. It acknowledges the importance of crafting moments for deep listening. Similar to a dinner host setting a table for guests — a process of preparation and place-making — our minds require space to allow the ideas and experiences of others to linger within us.
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