Values check — for candidates, and for us all

While thinking about how we would vote this November, we both decided we must first discern our most important values.

For one, we want health for our family, friends, community and society, always striving to help all people of the world attain health. We also need and desire good air, water, soil, and nutritious food. We want healthy forests, rivers, oceans, animals and ecosystems. And we need good government that justly works for the good of all diverse life!

It seems to us most people want these or similar things. So why do we feel despairing when we hear the current political discourse?