As I look out on the world, I see suffering, hardship, injustice, and violence borne of ignorance.  But I also see courage, kindness, sacrifice, and generosity that grows out of our shared experience as humans.   It has always been so.  It will always be so.  I choose to focus my attention and energy on what brings us together in community.  Whether that be a community of two, or twenty, of two hundred, or twenty million.