City-Dweller Lost In Rural Texas, But Open And Hopeful About All People

I got lost in a rural part of the Houston area last week. 

While lost, I took the picture you see above. This picture has some cows and a wind gizmo.

I've spent nearly every day of my life in a city.

But I always resist lazy characterizations of rural people as somehow less sophisticated or whatever than folks who live in a city.

We've got to be open to the hopes and the abilities of all people. 

Here is a column I found from a professor at the University of Missouri about the shared interests and goals of urban and rural Americans. 

Openness and kindness is a form of everyday resistance in American society. 

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