{"id":41,"date":"2008-10-04T22:15:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-10-04T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T05:26:10","slug":"my-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"My Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

We shall never cease from exploration
\nAnd the end of all our exploring
\nWill be to arrive where we started
\nAnd know the place for the first time
\nT.S. Eliot<\/p>\n

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I have been blessed to spend my entire adult life in the San Francisco bay area. Here I found my career, reveled in this area’s incredible natural wonders, built a family and became part of a community that developed and shared my worldview.<\/p>\n

In his book ‘The Clustering of America’ Michael J. Weiss explains Claritas ‘geodemographics’ which defines 40 distinct ‘clusters’. Among them, Furs & Station Wagons, Young Influentials, Bohemian Mix, and Shotguns & Pickups. For the San Francisco bay area the cluster would be Money\u00a0& Brains. This area brought us an explosion of technology on a backdrop of tolerance and progressive thinking. The result was a community that attracted some of the greatest minds and creative spirits.<\/p>\n

Now here’s the rub.\u00a0While we\u00a0can produce some of the most stimulating conversation and sparkling banter, the conservatives among us often feel isolated and unheard.\u00a0\u00a0Oh, and woe be to anyone\u00a0who cannot present a clear and cogent argument, irrespective of their politics.\u00a0 It turns out that our\u00a0greatest shared value is thoughtful and articulate critique.\u00a0 \u00a0 We were founded by engineers and scientists,\u00a0 and if analysis is in our blood, critical thinking is our religion.<\/p>\n

Even those of us of faith shake our heads at Creationists and mock Abstinence Only programs.\u00a0 If my goal is to venture from my comfort zone, it is imperative that I acknowledge my\u00a0blindness to arguments that I determine to be indefensible.\u00a0 My commitment is to stay present and to listen with openness.\u00a0 And maybe, just maybe, I will come back to know it new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time T.S. Eliot I have been blessed to spend my entire adult life in the San Francisco bay area. Here I found my career, reveled in this area’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hwireroad.org\/2008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}