Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Today we vote in the primary.  It's fitting we have to trudge up a hill to a garage to do so.  I live in an area where I'm semi-comfortable with most of the politics and my representatives, but I know that I'm in a bubble.  My concerns are not necessarily those of others.  I think of my grandchildren, first and foremost.  I want water, clean air, opportunity and peace for them.  I don't see a lot of grandparent thinking in our country right now.  The Me-ism of the eighties has been growing stronger ever since the Reagan years, and now we seem to be a nation of the fearful and narcissistic.  There is no vision, and I think that is what leadership is all about.  Steering us, for our benefit and the future, towards sustainable living and compassionate actions.  Who are those people and how can they come forward in our current climate?  I pray that some appear soon, very soon.