A World Connected

There is no denying that, as human beings, we overcome trying experiences from the moment we are brought into this world.  This drive to surpass challenges, and the challenges themselves, have expressed themselves in our genetic makeup for thousands of years.  Entire civilizations have borne the mark of our collective and individual need to survive, and in that survival, the necessity for creative exploration and communion with one another. I live in Boston, Massachusetts, a city long valued as a mecca for cultural and historical significance, and we are struggling.  We are struggling, not just for affordable rents, an adequate public school system, or a fairer sharing of basic resources.  In the dawn of COVID-19, a lack of attention towards our deeper societal values have been laid bare as long-held spaces for communal experience have crumbled.  Places like The Milky Way and Bella Luna in JP  and  Out of the Blue Art Gallery in Allston are permanently closed now, even as condominium