Someone else with thoughts on Minneapolis

I think many of us find all the political stürm und drang going on a drain on the spirit, so having shared on this video I'll move on to thinking about other things for a while. I'm about to start sewing box pleats by hand into a black skirt with black thread in the English winter, so I'll probably be along to complain about that before long.

Please notice, these videos I've come across and am drawing to your attention don't all promote the same point of view. That's because I'm not picking sides in these issues, I'm just interested in listening to sane and thoughtful voices — I'm more interested in the approach than the objective. I think whatever your politics might be, whether you incline to the Left or the Right, whatever your thoughts on immigration, whether you are based in the US or the UK or elsewhere, it's still helpful for each of us to think through the approach we bring to civic and/or personal encounters, and try to get the balance right in establishing boundaries with a view to enhancing compassion. If we can hold in place an approach that is calm and promotes safety, that should offer the framework to air differences constructively and find a way forward that works for social justice and the common good.

Feel free to just pass this over if you are well weary of trying to tease apart the tangled threads of right and wrong in civic unrest. But I think what Nick Freitas has to say here is realistic and constructive.

I have one reservation about Nick's video — by this time I am getting tetchy about this constant denigration of women, this ever-recurring assertion that in any situation where things go wrong, the woman is the problem and she can either shut up and sit down or the man will leave. I am here to tell you that it can be one almighty big relief when he walks out of the house for the last time. 

In my own life, I have seen plenty of situations, up close and personal, where it is the man who has been the spoilt brat, and both the woman and the children have needed to be the adults who together repaired and rebuilt after he trashed everything. With that corrective, I do recommend what Nick Freitas has to say.