Welcome to Remaking the Space Between Us
We the People have become the problem. Let us become the solution.
Dear Friends,
Welcome! I am so glad and so grateful that you are joining us on this journey to better understand and remake the space between us. When you subscribe, I’ll send you my essay “Putting Faith in Friendship” here. I am eager to learn of any thoughts, feelings, or questions the essay evoked, so please share them under Comments.
This newsletter and its community will help cultivate the curiosity, introspection, empathy, and hope we need to make our differences work for us, not against us. I wrote Remaking the Space Between Us and launched this newsletter to counteract a social media and 24-hour news cycle that have left us so exhausted and enraged that We the People can no longer do much of anything constructive.
The polarizing divides we hear about morning, noon, and night are nothing new. They have existed since our founding. At different moments, they have made government of the people, by the people, and for the people all but impossible. It is time to confront them directly, better understand them, even use them to build a better future, for all.
In this bi-weekly newsletter, we will explore the hidden forces that turn differences into divides by driving us closer to people like us and further away from those unlike us (see about this newsletter). We will share ideas and stories about how to transform these forces, so We the People can become the solution we need each other to be.
For those skeptics among you, I hope you stay tuned. You will not only see that it is possible to remake the space between us but that it is already happening.
Until we meet again,
Diana McLain Smith
