We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can look at the world in a new way. We can meet.

I had a big beautiful cake in my head called “Feeling the Pain of Others” and I sliced it this way and that because I thought that emotion is the bridge between people, sentiment crosses space, sympathy is a gas, exhaled by one, inhaled by the other. Empathy! It’s just like melting. We can merge, you know. We can connect. We can cry at the same movie. You and I.

~Anne Enright

I’m so pleased to know you…

inquiry for today~ will you connect with someone new today?

for the right ways of being….

It is not our differences that divide us.

It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

~Audre Lorde