In these troubled times...

This quote from Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg's book, The Murmuring Deep, page ix, echoes and resonates:

In any vital encounter, much more is transacted than lies within the field of consciousness. As Hans-Georg Gadder often remarks, we "always already" belong to prejudices, wishes, and interests that close us to certain truths and open us to others. The complex interplay of forgetting and remembering, the traumatic departures from our own experience, all leave traces in our movements of communion with one another.