Gather Round the Table
Between my salty missives on not entertaining other people's demons and my urgings to invite your friends over for cake, I've been puzzling over how we counteract the divide that is being purposefully hoisted on our country. My conclusion, we eat dinner together.
The slow pace of sitting down to break bread together (literally or figuratively) and look someone in the eye innately brings down barriers. By no means is it a surefire way to ensure that all parties will acknowledge the perspective of the others, but it's far easier to dismiss someone from afar than it is sitting across from him.
There's a reason they stripped this from us during COVID. There's a power in gathering, and I'm not simply referring to the energetic amplification that occurs when people embodied in their own energy are in the same room. It's more human than that. When we're together, we listen — at least that's my sincere hope.
photo credit: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
