In the same way, an individual can create meaning by being oriented, conjoined, and adapted toward beings other than herself. The most significant possible goal for any person who seeks meaning is to be immersed in a community of others, because it is such a community that one gets to actually experience hope.

~ Jill Hernandez, “The Existential Ground of True Community: Coffee and Otherness”

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But each one of us is guilty insofar as he remained inactive. The guilt of passivity is different. Impotence excuses; no moral law demands a spectacular death. Plato already deemed it a matter of course to go into hiding in desperate times of calamity, and to survive. But passivity knows itself morally guilty of every failure, every neglect to act whenever possible, to shield the imperiled, to relieve wrong, to countervail. Impotent submission always left a margin of activity which, though not without risk, could still be cautiously effective. Its anxious omission weighs upon the individual as moral guilt. Blindness for the misfortune of others, lack of imagination of the heart, inner differences toward the witnessed evil—that is moral guilt.

~ Karl Jaspers

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O how I long to make a home

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woman with the flower skirt

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Of course, I couldn’t resist an opportunity to photograph my beautiful little sister-in-law while she is visiting us in Seattle this week.

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~ Jesus

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