Yesterday, Anna Burger of the SEIU spoke during the final plenary session of the Take Back America conference. I was tired and browsed various pictures from Wordless Wednesday. Burger started talking about Walk A Day In My Shoes, a project by the SEIU to get candidates to spend a day living the life of one of their union members. I like that project a lot. We all need to spend more time getting a sense how people outside our immediate circle lives.

This takes me back to one of my old rants, which is about the progressive bloggers. So many of them seem to spend their time talking to one another on certain blogs, but how often do they walk a day in the shoes of others? Anyway, how do you do that online?

Well, I think Wordless Wednesday is a great starting point. I kept scanning pictures of things that are important, beautiful, interesting, or some combination of the above to the bloggers that participate; flowers, rainbows, children, the stuff of daily life. I stopped at Mommy’s Busy to see if there was any news about Faith. I stopped by at Bee’s, who describes herself as a conservative with liberal friends (hey some of 'em aren't too bad - honest!). I visited Sarge Charlie. Sarge and I probably don’t agree on a much political stuff, and that’s probably putting it mildly, but he does have a great picture that people interested in politics should check out. He writes great stuff about his family and about the men and women that serve our country.

When Ms. Burger finished speaking, it was Gov. Dean’s turn to speak. I suspect Sarge might not think the most of Gov. Dean, but the Governor said something that I thought was really important and ties together these thoughts. Immediately after Katrina, the DNC suspended much of its fundraising operations. They felt that it just wasn’t right to be out asking for money from people when the money was most needed on the Gulf Coast. They encouraged staffers to go down to the coast and volunteer. Two of the staffers ended up staying with a couple Southern Baptist women. They were concerned that these Southern Baptist women might not think much about people working for the Democratic Party in Washington, DC. However, after they all worked together, side by side, helping with relief efforts, both the DNC staffers and the Southern Baptist women learned to appreciate each other, and that’s what we need more of.

I hope Sarge and his buddies stop by this blog from time to time, at least on Wednesdays. I hope they go over and visit Stacie’s blog to see how Faith is doing, and to offer up a little prayer for that family. I hope some of my liberal friends stop by and visit Sarge’s blog, and send letters of support to our troops in response to some of Sarge’s posts. Maybe by doing that, our Wednesdays can go beyond being Wordless to being Wonderful.

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