While it is human nature to blame and demonize others in miserable times, it is also human nature to walk together, the leaders as barefoot as the followers. The residents of Damascus left us a model for how to live in this precedented now. As the poet Robert Frost put it, “The only way out is through.” And the only good way through is together. Even when circumstances separate us—in fact, especially when they do—the way through is together.
