To The Editor:
My neighbor texted me to let me know that a woman knocked on her door to let her know that someone in a blue pickup truck pulled up, grabbed our campaign signs and drove off. I had just gone up to the mailbox to leave some free items out on the lawn and noticed the signs were missing. A sign had disappeared before, earlier this summer and I thought that that wind and driving cars had done it, but this time it was four signs and one of them was screwed into the mailbox post, so I was pretty sure that some person did this.
I am wondering how we can ever heal the divisions in our country and saddened by how much we have lost in terms of understanding and fearful of the consequences of a widening divide. I am hopeful that we can still treat our neighbors with kindness, sharing our differences with an openness to understanding and respect. I am one who shows compassion to all living beings and want to create a climate of understanding. Seems that so many folks are angry and feeling unheard. I want to hear from you, but not this way. I hope that we can find some way to dialogue about the hard issues. Let’s start with looking at what we have in common. Perhaps love of our freedoms, our families, nature … Perhaps a public forum to start the healing at home. If we in our local communities can agree to disagree and hold conversations where we agree to civility and non-blaming is one way I can think of. Let us identify what is so wrong and work to correct it. Sign pulling and getting even are surely not the way.
Bobbi Rood
Waitsfield
