Thank you

Once again, in the face of suffering and loss, thank you to all the first responders, to the neighbors, friends, strangers, who step up to help. Thank you to all the volunteers from near and far that are willing to leave everything behind at a moments notice to go and help. To those that raise money, who put on or go to benefits, who raise awareness, who feed people, who donate blood, who listen, who comfort, who send love or prayers, who clean up the rumble, thank you. In all places of suffering, and despair and pain, thank you to those who bring hope and light and love and redemption.  There is suffering and pain in life, but there is also beauty and love and hope and friendship and things that make our time here more than just something to bear. So, thank you to everyone who does any of those things for restoring my faith in humanity (again).  Our better angels rise above the mud and filth of existence.