Every single one of us will experience major loss in our lifetime. Each experience of loss is different, in a million fractal ways — there are no absolute rules about what loss feels like, or how it will shape us in our lives going forward. But in our work, our team at the Social Healing Project has seen one clear pattern, across all forms of loss and all types of people experiencing it: The presence of others helps us toward healing. All of us.

If no be God
Where man for dey
,walk while waiting brrr

As a result? We’ve spent the last four weeks living within not one but two party-wide cynicisms, colliding at the same time. Trump supporters’ cynicism in the system, and Biden supporters’ cynicism in their candidate, left the majority of America not just unhappy about their choices, but wondering if we even had a choice, and a shared process, at all.

Popple

This is a term that means “choppy seas.”