We need each other now. We need each other deeply. Here in the full flush of the reality of the life-and-death nature of this ritual, here in the full flush of our impotence as individuals to meet this most urgent emergency, our need for each other is immense. We heal one another by being together. We give each other hope. Now we know for sure—by ourselves, ain banu ma’asim, there is nothing we can do.
