As I travelled through Tuscany, I’ve met so many people from all parts of the world and the world has never seemed so small! With each of us having different levels of understanding of another’s language…Italian, German, Swiss, English, Spanish and everything else in between! A smile, a nod, pointing a direction…even one word versus a complete sentence…serves as all the language we really needed. With everyone so eager to help the other…it occurs to me what is possible when we make a choice to give space and grace to each other.

This morning, our first gentleman, Dan Mulhearn (http://twitter.com/danmulhern), said "scarcity + vocal anger=waves of panic and I appreciate him saying it out loud. Healthcare reform is not a new problem…it’s just a problem we can no longer ignore because of other situations that have surfaced.