This is wild

I have an unhinged idea about self-worth.

I recently saw a video on Instagram made by Democratic strategist Keith Edwards about a “totally unhinged” Trump rally. “This is becoming a regular series, I guess, where I bring you the wildest things he says every week,” Edwards muses.

I didn’t watch the rest. It’s not that I don’t care whether Americans elect an indicted, authoritarian demagogue to lead our democracy. It’s because my nervous system gets overwhelmed when I think about the violence Trump inspires. While Edwards is smart to try to shake people off their phone and into the voting booth, Americans need to engage in democracy beyond an emergency state.

We need to find and respect our self-worth.

self-worth (noun) : a sense of one’s own value as a human being. (Merriam-Webster)

I started looking seriously for my self-worth three years ago on a ranch outside Nashville. There were horses…