Aesop once told the following story:

Aesop once told the following story:
Once there was a father who summoned his three children to his bed as he neared death. He wanted to give them a final gift to help them in life. He reached under his pillow and pulled out a bundle of three sticks tied together with a cord. He then gave the bundle to each of his children and asked each of them to break the bundle. As you may remember, they could not break the bundle.
The father then took the bundle, untied the cord, and gave one stick to each of his children and asked them to try to break the stick they were now holding. They tried and each of them did break the individual stick. "Children," he said, "this is to show you that together you are stronger than you are separately."

The fracking of our society must be tempered with the realization that we share much than we don't. We can stick together or stand apart. I call on each of you to reach out to someone who strongly disagrees with you today. Socially, politically, or philosophically; just start trying to remember that opposite sides are still on the same coin. Even one little baby step is enough to begin a journey.