Episode 62: Balance

“We are a country that likes to brag about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, but can’t seem to stop falling off the beam when it comes to the things that are harder to talk about, like economic equality and racism.”

We are a country that does a great number of things well. But there’s one beam we keep falling off — again, and again. (Photo: Police arrest two civil rights activists in Tallahassee in 1961). What a failed gymnastics career and a Virginia realtor’s perspective can show us navigating this time with humility and presence.