"Hmm. I'm getting out my cloak," he warns, before reaching for his small pack and going digging through it."

"I know it was harder for me to see before I learned I was connected to everything. And I know it was there, all along, even when I was hiding and more guarded. All the little acts of kindness, and love, and courage, that people do every day, to make things bearable. The basis for any hope at all for anything to be better."