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You know, what we've experienced here with COVID, I think a lot of the world lives

in that space where both life and death are very kind of immediate and you know

it's not guaranteed and so there's a fragility that is at the center of many

people's lives and a precariousness that I think that we are only starting to

understand, you know, there's places in India where I work where you'll see the

mom not name their child for three months because they don't want to get

super attached to that kid because there's a possibility or even a

probability that that child might not survive and so I think that there's a

centering of the fragility of existence. I had a professor named June Jordan

and there's a prompt that she would give us that was a Martin Luther King prompt

that said only when it's dark enough can you see the stars. There's a lot of

truth to that that you know in the midst of burnout and overwhelm and seeing a

lot of suffering, you know, compassion is a flipped side of that otherwise I

think you can be enveloped by the darkness and so the practice of cherishing and

drawing out the pieces of our lives that we're grateful for I think is such a

crucial practice because it helps us anchor in possibility and hope in

imagining a new world for ourselves and you know, the communities that we're serving.

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