How We Find Real Unity From Left to Right (New Video)

My Declaration as an Independent & Humble Harvest of Truth

Screenshot from “Real Unity” video by Free The People. Directed & Edited by Sam Martin.

The first taste of ideological unity I experienced in 2020 was not online. It was not on TV. It was at a quiet place — a local farm near where I live in Pennsylvania.

When I picked up seedlings there last May, I felt overwhelmed with peace. We were not allowed to get out of our cars. So all I saw was a wide open space, a greenhouse, two farmers, bumper stickers, and a big flag on a big truck awaiting compost soil.

Stickers of many perspectives revealed ideals coming together on a calm spring morning. While this is not always possible, it is possible in nature to manifest the surreal.

Amazed, I revisited an ideal I was rooted in by my family: “That we are flowers of one garden.”

Grounding in the garden is hard work. While the soil is hard, it is also tender.

As Americans, we are like flowers in one potted garden with poor soil. It’s not enough. When a flower doesn’t bloom you change the environment. We are being transplanted collectively. It’s beautiful. It’s hard. It’s just. It’s love.

If we think of the nation as a garden: How can we let our free thinkers flutter and flourish?