i one of my first friends in indiana, her name was joanna taft. she came up to me after church one day and said hi, i'm joanna taft. would you like to work with us time. and i never heard the word port she used as a verb before. but i was curious and we went to her home that day and i realized is that joanna is staging a quiet revolution against. our atomized, divided and alienated status quo from the vantage point of her great front veranda, she created people across politics, across geography, race, just to inhabit a shared space and that is radical in our deeply divided and deeply siloed moment and as i wrote this book, i realized there are people across the country hundreds, thousands, the same thing they're saying, i can't. who is going to win in 2024? i can't control what's happening down down the road city hall, but i can control myself. and i'm going to choose to make my sphere of influence a better and beautiful place. the book is called the soul of civility timely principles to heal society and ourselves. the author alexandrait's and ons