Increasingly we are navigating polarities, times where ordinary people are profoundly divided, angrily waving rakes and insults at their neighbours, or running indoors to avoid conflict. Its easy to step into the rhetoric of one side or another because it requires very little of us, however when we do that we miss the value that lies in our contrast, the beauty and expansion of a differing perspective, and the strengthening of the whole of a community when we open to the ideas of another.