Dear CCI Friends and Followers,
We wish you a wonderful Holiday Season, albeit perhaps different from former holidays. This year is making all of us creative as we communicate love and well being to our families and friends, many of them at distances far from ourselves.
I believe there is a good possibility that this whole COVID scare will prove to be healthy for our nation and for us as individuals. I watch and listen and realize that it’s making us more thoughtful, more resourceful … and it’s waking up many of our friends and family members for the first time … that we are mortal and life is not a certainty. This makes us begin to ask questions and go internally for what could be termed ‘spiritual’ or deeper answers about life. If our whole nation is going through this process, which it seems that it is, it seems to me that we will also have to examine our role in the world as a country.
Currently, we as a nation have begun championing racial equality, gender equality, indigenous persons equality, etc., accepting all other persons as equal to ourselves … isn’t it time that we realize that Russian and Chinese people also deserve to be considered equally important as ourselves and forego demonizing them?
Today I received a huge piece of mail with large black letters saying,
“TAKE A STAND AGAINST HATE AND EXTREMISM!”
I pondered … YES! YES!! We need to take a stand against all Hate and Extremism wherever it manifests! In the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, on our streets, in our media, wherever it exists! And let us look at the nations of the world as people and countries with which we can align, work out our differences and forgo attempting to remain the “Unipolar Nation,” stop creating wars that cripple other nations and run us Trillions of $$$ in debt.
Let’s do our part to spread Acceptance and Goodwill to ALL people and nations across our small planet in 2021!
And may you and your family stay healthy and well during these coming months!
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
And our wonderful CCI Team of Volunteers and Visionaries