Nora Borcea Pullen

Caring Communities Foundation is taking two important steps to deepen its work in Fayette County: forming a new local advisory board and launching the Fayette Together Fund, a permanent community endowment designed specifically to support nonprofits serving Fayette residents.

This past weekend, my husband and I spent several days in Savannah for a convention. Every time I visit, I fall a little more in love with the city. The stately squares. Oaks draped in Spanish moss that seem to hold centuries of stories in their branches. The collision of beauty and painful history. Even the food feels like Savannah itself, creative, layered, impossible to separate from the people who shaped it. One brunch and dinner in particular still linger in my memory.

Whenever I hear someone suggest that certain voices should matter less, that some voters should have less influence over the future than others, or that public dissatisfaction can be solved by concentrating authority in fewer hands, something inside me recoils before my mind has fully formed a thought. It is not an intellectual reaction, it is visceral. The tightening of a muscle. A quickening of breath.