Here’s what we talked about today:

A recent episode of OPB Newshour about Braver Angels.
A recent Braver Angels event in Washington County that one of our members attended with a few other people from Tillamook County.
The difficulty of convincing people - especially those who have strongly partisan views - to get outside their comfort zones enough even to talk to people with different views.
A conversation that one of us had in the community recently about the labor shortage in our area. It started with sound bites – repetition of standard partisan talking points – but progressed to respectful and mutual pondering of the real factors that get in the way of employment, assisted by real stories about real people, and by the history of real accomplishments in solving problems.
A letter from Laree Johnson published in today’s Daily Astorian listing some of Biden’s accomplishments and concluding that Biden is a “producer, not a performer.”