Source: Civic Engagement and the Restoration of Community: Changing the Nature of the ConversationThe power to create a future requires us to choose to be accountable.
To be accountable, among other things, means you act as an owner and part creator of whatever it is that you wish to improve.
In the absence of this, you are in the position of effect, not cause … a powerless stance.
To be accountable is to care for the well being of the whole and act as if this well being is in our hands and hearts to create.
This kind of accountability is created through the conversations we have with each other.
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