It’s about learning the painful fact that it isn’t just trauma that takes a toll on us; repair takes a toll. It’s about learning that justice is labor, and if we try to do it alone, that monumental burden—its loneliness, its weight, its corrosive rage and pain—will be crushing. It’s about sobering to the adult realization that there are some things we cannot do alone—and there are also sometimes places in ourselves we cannot reach with community.
