We invite all Inspirada residents to come join us for the first part of our meeting to hear from our special guest, Marcie Smedley, the Executive Director of Henderson Libraries. Marcie will talk about the upcoming tax initiative that will be on the ballot in November. This is your chance to ask questions about the tax initiative and how it will benefit residents of Inspirada. If passed, funds from the tax initiative would be used to fund the building of a full-size library serving West Henderson!

If you’d like to stay for the second part of the meeting, we’ll be discussing how to have productive and healthy conversations in this country’s divided political environment based on the book “I Never Thought of It That Way” by Mónica Guzmán. Journalist Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who voted – twice – for Donald Trump. When the country could no longer see straight across the political divide, Mónica set out to find what was blinding us and discovered the most eye-opening tool we’re not using: our own built-in curiosity.

Partisanship is up, trust is down, and our social media feeds makes sure we’re right and everyone else is ignorant (or worse). But avoiding one another is hurting our relationships and our society. In this timely, personal guide, Mónica, the chief storyteller for the national cross-partisan depolarization organization Braver Angels, takes you to the real front lines of a crisis that threatens to grind America to a halt – broken conversations among confounded people. She shows you how to overcome the fear and certainty that surrounds us to finally do what seems only impossible: understand and even learn from people in your life whose whole worldview is different from or even opposed to yours.