I drove to Port Angeles for a school visit yesterday and was reminded that it’s much more than geography that separates people. Talking with my son later, the topic of lecture he had heard attributed many aspects of millennial ennui to disconnections from going through a range of emotions and experiences in real life. We need to have the chance to engage, to feel sadness or isolation and to bump up against others who might also be there, to be broken hearted and find inner strength to recover, to be open to joy.
artist unknown, Claremont Graduate Institute, 2017