Today's letter is different. Today's letter comes from rocky waves and seas, from a place in my heart that is stormy and terrible.

We're currently witnessing global acts of violence that are atrocities. I cannot turn a blind eye to all of it anymore, and I am ashamed to say that I have been. But now that I've chosen to actively participate and learn, everything I'm learning carries with it the crushing weight of a truth I have always known: people are cruel. Not everyone, not all the time, but there are people who engage in acts of extreme cruelty to others in a way that makes me want to gouge out my own eyes. For a long time I lived far away from this truth and tried to combat it with hope and optimism, being careful with my consumption of bad news, and trying to limit it in an attempt to preserve my own hopefulness.

I'm lea ...