“Many of us don’t live in communities any longer, where you are cherished just for your family having been known for generations, where everyone stays in the same place. Then if you are religious, that alters everything because you are part of a people with a history and faith that allows you to belong not only in the present but also in the past and future. But if you have no home, no faith, no community, and a scattered, inattentive, or resentful family, you are alone in the big world.”
