{"id":10589,"date":"2015-06-24T21:58:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T01:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/?p=10589"},"modified":"2015-06-24T21:58:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T01:58:02","slug":"home-again-home-again-or-the-quilt-vs-bad-fondue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2015\/06\/home-again-home-again-or-the-quilt-vs-bad-fondue.html","title":{"rendered":"home again, home again…or, the quilt vs bad fondue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So after two afternoons of rental cars, two days of airplanes, and a packed<\/em> day of looking at a house, we’re home. And boy — home seldom looked so ambivalent…<\/p>\n

Glad to be here? Absolutely — the sheets are clean, animals are ecstatic we’re back, and I can cook! I immediately went out for the ‘necessities’ we need to replenish. You know: bread (oops!), milk (got that), coffee beans, and strawberries for strawberry shortcake tomorrow. When in turmoil? Cook. Because afterwards you get\u00a0to eat it!<\/p>\n

I have a love-hate relationship w\/ my home state. It is — as the meme shows — redder than red. And I’m about as blue dog as you get. Equity and social justice are as important to me as anything I can come up with. Whereas in this state? Oklahoma is\u00a0far more about ‘free’ enterprise than equity.<\/p>\n

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Have you seen this cartoon explaining equity vs. equality? Sure — you can give each girl one stool of the same size; that’s equality. But the girls are of different\u00a0heights: for them all\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0<\/em>be able to see over the fence, they need their individual heights (needs) addressed. THAT is equity — levelling the playing field.<\/p>\n

That isn’t a priority in Oklahoma, I’m sorry to say. I’m even sorrier to note that it’s \u00a0not much of a priority anywhere else, either. It’s\u00a0grown out of fashion, I guess. We want kids to test the same, despite poverty, violence, learning disabilities, malnutrition & illness. We want different cultures to be ‘melted’ into one pot (a metaphor I can’t stand). Me? I want a quilt top, w\/colourful pieces of different sizes, fabrics, textures, weaves. I want it backed w\/ something beautiful — here the metaphor can be stretched to make this American history, told\u00a0truthfully<\/em>. It shouldn’t (I can’t stress this enough) be religion. Or even language, initially.<\/p>\n

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This is an unpopular metaphorical platform almost everywhere these days. But I still believe in its appropriateness for America, and every one of our United States. And maybe in a new place, I can remember how many people do\u00a0<\/em>believe this.\u00a0My hope is that a move will, as reflection is wont to do, remind me how much I love about my home state, as well. How beautiful it is\u00a0the spiral dance of scissortails,\u00a0<\/em>the clouds of April dogwood<\/em>. How kind & generous the people here can be. And that somehow, we’ll realise the possibilities that great\u00a0Oklahomans like Will Rogers & Woody Guthrie saw in us.<\/p>\n

In the meantime? I’m just home from the Blue Ridge Mountains, and I have to tell you: they’re\u00a0awesome!\u00a0<\/em>And full of such unknown promise! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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