Initially I wondered, "How can I engage with this history?" After all, I'm the son of Jamaican immigrants.
But how can I engage without a bench, pond, greenhouse, log pile, sundial, decking, terracing, pleaching, topiary, water butt, gate, nuttery, parterre, arbor, beehive, stream, rockery, gravel, or hammock?
"If you're a transition leader or somebody that is going to be trying to run for election in Tunisia or Egypt, doesn't it make sense to try to figure out, 'How can I engage these people that were in the street?
Can I engage in "courageous" acts in the right circumstances, for the right reasons, and so on, and still do them "as one does"—that is, without drawing these behaviors back to my first-person choice of myself in the world, a commitment to being a courageous person?
What opulence can I engage in?
What extreme amount of economic waste can I engage in to show people around me that this is real?
It is actually, I think, something which for those who worry about the Liberal Democrat role in that, it should be a source of comfort that we will keep their feet to the fire.The Economist: Can I just engage in a bit of what-if politics?Mr Clegg: I have to say, I am immensely impressed that we have talked for 55 minutes now without doing this.
I live in Atlanta because I'm from that world, and I can engage that world, and I can go to these studios, and I can have conversations, and I can wrestle with things back and forth with them".
So if I can engage, I try.
I can do this through how I engage the topic of mental health throughout my daily life.
I can engage but I actively choose not to.
