With friends and loved ones all holding various positions on the state of our world right now, there really could be no better time to get a handle on your own position and perhaps even dust off those compassion credentials with a refresher course on how to hold your own without infringing on anyone's similar birthright in the process.

-If you want to change the world... draw a circle, step into it, and start there.

Without a clear and fortified position regarding where we stand on the matter, it takes little more than a stiff breeze filled with the scent of someone else's strong conviction, to knock us off our feet. And when that happens, sometimes we have to stay on the ground long enough to remember we all have our own value system. It is what we use to ensure our footing and it protects us from the implied superiority of those offering to "give us a hand".