Back in 1623, without a phone, a camera, or a social media account, John Donne could already write that, “No man is an island,” and that, “any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.”
Today we are all diminished by so much that’s wrong or sad or scary or a horrible waste, but we also have the means to reach out, connect, and build something beautiful based on the values that so many of us share.