Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We don't have many examples of right speech out there in the world.  Instead we have our president and congress and a whole bunch of people in love with the sound of their own voices.  Mostly Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama are the only figures showing reason and compassion.  Perhaps being a political leader predisposes a person to wrong speech.  Promises, promises, promises.  When the truth is spoken it is quite dramatic, but gets little attention.  Evidently, it doesn't "sell".  Luckily, I can read books for truth, though finding them is not easy.  I have authors I respect and listen to, both with non-fiction and fiction.  And some films as well.  We are hungry for the truth of our experience, so when a book like The Handmaid's Tale reappears and the TV miniseries pops up as well, we can see past rhetoric to the logical consequence of political decisions.  Let's just not listen to the blowhards.  Find your own sources of truth and protect and support them.