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Judge Less. Forgive More.

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"Judge less. Forgive more." Here is a difficult assignment. It is the one that I was given. Recently, I found myself very upset by the state of the world. I ventured out into the fray and posted some articles of current events, which I don't often do. After all, it often invites vitriol and invectives of some sort. But I had to. I could not keep silent. And, I was insulted. Bear in mind, that I am the daughter, granddaughter, niece, and cousin to former and current diplomats. I was taught the arts of compromise, consensus, and behaving politely. And the rest I absorbed through osmosis and simple modeling. But that is not the world we live in today.  People who don't know you will insult you in a way they would never do face to face. That is one of the real failures of social media: It empowers people to hurl insults behind a screen. I could be angry. And hurt. And indeed I was - at what was happening in our culture and all over the planet - and