“If the pandemic that began and engulfed the world in 2020 taught us anything at all it is that we are utterly and inevitably interconnected—and not only with each other, but also with this earth on which we wholly depend in all its brilliance, beauty, fearsomeness and biodiversity. Yet this was also the time in which we witnessed and felt first-hand the agonies of isolation and loneliness, the need we have for one another, the need each of us has to be cared for—and to be caring.”

― from “Intimacy and Solitude: Finding new closeness and self-trust in a distanced world”