How are you feeling? 
How are you dealing with the pain,  
or the shame, of all that affects us  
globally, locally, or personally? 
Can you sympathize? 
Will you empathize with what you 
are told and all that you know . . .  
and all that you don’t? 
Have you found the compassionate  
voice within? Is it authentic? 

10/15/2023                                                                                  j.g.l.