April 20, 2025

a single garment of destiny

Conversations these days depend in part on the most recent dispatch by which folks are targeted or threatened or both. Undertones become overtones the more focused the group, the greater the degree of shared immanent danger.

Leavened by moments of joy; acknowledged by discreet nods; buoyed by a sense of community.

It is not that we are all in this together; it is that we are all affected regardless.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

— Martin Luther King Jr in Letter from a Birmingham Jail (August 1963)