Even if you don’t back Hillary, what she is saying is true. We need equality, tolerance and compassion for one another. We need to care when bad events happen in other people’s lives. We need to care that some of us work so hard and just can’t catch a break. It needs to matter. As our lives matter.

The Way of Love

The way of love is not

a subtle argument.

The door there

is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles

of their freedom.

How did they learn it?

They fall and falling,

they are given wings.

—Rumi, translated from the Persian by Coleman Barks