Written in August last year: Family values were my parents' greatest gift to me, the ones they taught me by example.
You work hard. You protect and provide for your family. You put your responsibilities before your desires. You lend a hand when someone's struggling, listen and hold a hand when someone's hurting, speak up when someone needs guidance, stand up when the truth needs a friend.
None of this needs explanation or justification. Everyone understands. Everyone knows it's the right thing to do.
These are the values of communities that work, of tribes, of neighbourhoods, villages and towns.
Our challenge is to extend those values to communities, to provinces, to the whole country, and in time the whole world.
