Dear Friend, you are not alone

“Remember you are not alone, though the sermons of an oppressive obvious press a different take on your skin. To these stentorian voices that preach your isolation, remind them that you are not alone — and this is not because there are others around you, but because you are already made of others.

Stretch out your arm a little, and you’ll find it is held up by more than just your volition. Try to sit perfectly still, and then listen to the fleshly syncopations within your chest that resist your attempts at solitude.

There’s a generosity attending you: a prior generosity. Even the capacity to feel grief, to be torn asunder in the face of so much suffering, to wonder what it means to be human now, to feel exhausted with the tensions afoot, is the generosity of your body in its excessive spillages.”