Prayers

It is easy to forget our fragility: the fragility of human nature, the fragility of compassion, the fragility of civilization, the fragility of human life. We float through our everyday lives with such buoyancy, never really examining what we have and what we could lose. We can lose a lot. We have a lot of skin in the game. Strangers across the world tug at our emotions. Images of suffering, chaos cry out to us. Stories make us tear up. Emotions burst from the floodgates: disbelief, astonishment, fear, concern, anger, pity. We are fragile creatures, and we need to help each other, support each other, unite hand-in-hand. So much of our time is concerned with ourselves, with the small things, the frugal. Today is not that day. Today is a day where what we can give, what we can write, what we can support matters. We strengthen those connections we've made across continents, across generations. There are no strangers to humanity, and I hope that today, we let our humanity shine bright. No whisper is left unheard.

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