are we not ready
So we need to keep making those small, deliberate efforts. To reach out. To connect. To do what so many around the globe cannot.
be strong. be kind.
When your child's school goes into lock-down, the first email to their teacher should be "Are you OK? Take care of yourselves, take care of your family".
buzzword bingo
But we also exist, I believe, to enable people to let go of their stories and their realities...
on conversations not had
Until we as a society make ways to work together differently, to do better together. We'll keep paying the cost.
quite a long way from cairo
If we value a strong and functioning civil society, then as a collective we must decide how to consider the complexity and costs of what it is to be that civil society.