Coming Together

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Apr 10

Written By Ashley Dodge

There are battle lines being drawn

Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong

Young people speaking their minds

Getting so much resistance from behind.

- Stephen Stills

Happy Monday!

Happy Monday {First Name}!

Don’t know about you but I am moving a bit slower this Monday morning after a fun filled afternoon yesterday with my sisters and their families. Time to now to look towards the week ahead and what it will bring.

The lyrics to the song For What It’s Worth by Stephen Stills has been going off in my head a lot this past week. Brought on by seeing the young people in this country shouting out, enough is enough! And rightly so.

Since the focus of this letter is to bring positive vibes into your week, the question becomes how we turn all this chaos around us towards the peace to our world that we ultimately want and need. At least the majority of us I believe want to be a part of the solution to bring the changes that need to happen in the world around us. Most especially here in the US. This is no small feat to be sure!

The lyrics to this song reminds me so much of the world we were beginning to get our arms around as children back in the 60’s when Stephen Stills wrote it. He originally wrote the song for the riots that were happening in Los Angeles, but it quickly became a song that said so much about the feelings around the Vietnam war and the turbulence of those days.

I remember when our neighbor’s son died during that war and how real it all became to me as a little girl. That sweet young man who had lived across from us for so many years lost his life to someone else’s war. I would have never imagined that we would all these years later actually have a war in our streets and most especially in our schools.

In my speaking world this year I have been impassioned about doing facilitation workshops and retreats with leadership teams to help bring the Leaders of these teams together. To assist them to come together and see beyond “sides” in order to accomplish so much more. To get beyond power struggles in order to honor differences and bring out the best for all.

There is a feeling of complete relief and hope when you can walk out of a room knowing that everyone just felt heard and respected. That efforts are underway to turn the wrongs into rights and the rights into a promise for a better tomorrow.

Take a listen to the song and I hope that it empowers you to come together this week with someone who you have a difference of opinion with so that you can come together. Remembering the words… nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong.

Let’s do this!