“Contemporary culture encourages us to make islands of ourselves for the sake of self-fulfillment, of career advancement, of entertainment, of diversion, and all the demands of the sovereign self. When suffering and death come for you – and it will – you want to be in a place where you know, and are known. You want – no, you need – to be able to say, as Mike did, “We’re leaning, but we’re leaning on each other.”
