As The World Falls Down

What do you say during times like this?

Not a lot of possibilities, really. Reassurances seem like platitudes; cynicism feels like fearmongering. Like most of us, my ability to influence what’s happening is limited. It’s not zero, and that’s something. It’s everything, really, because if we all make whatever small changes we can, large changes can happen.

Which sounds like a platitude, doesn’t it? But one other thing I know, along with the scope of my influence, is that I can’t predict the...