These faces make me think of so many things…
friends, co-workers, classmates, people I have known here in the Bay Area who came to the city to make their way in the world….people I might someday have met….and now, likely won’t.
They are us. And by “us” I do mean all of us. All of us in this small world of ours…
and if we are ever going to turn back this tide of terror, I am convinced it will be because the majority of “us” decide to reach out and define a new “we”….a new kind of brotherhood and sisterhood…
a new equality of compassion and respect…
and it will be because those lured into tolerating the mindsets of terror, the mindsets of hate and of war, will look into the eyes of those we have lost and see themselves.
Peace to you.