“I was never one to connect. I've been that way my entire life. I went to work, kept my head down, and came home. I let old friendships fizzle. I orbited my family and all of you like a distant planet--there and yet nearly impossible to reach. I know I can't survive alone.” RelationshipsFamilyConnectionConnectingSocial LifeFriendshipsSocializing Book:How High We Go in the Dark Source: How High We Go in the Dark
“I've always been proud of how much my daughter cared about the world. After school she’d study the news, comb the internet for disasters, wars and hate and injustice, write it all down in these color-coded journals. Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like anybody else noticed or cared that we kept making the same mistakes, that hate in a neighborhood or injustice in a state ran like poison through veins, until another ice shelf collapsed or another animal went extinct. Everything is connected, she’d say. And I’d tell her, You’re only one person and you only have one life.” WorldHateFamilyEnvironmentNewsConnectionsInjusticeActivismDisastersCrises Book:How High We Go in the Dark Source: How High We Go in the Dark