I look for what Gil Fronsdal has to say whenever something especially tragic happens in the world. Here he is on Israel and Gaza. I find it enlivening to hear someone talk about this with humanity, wisdom, & compassion. I learned in this talk that Gil's father-in-law survived Buchenwald concentration camp as a teenager even though his parents (Gil's wife's grandparents) died there.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
from the garden of the Hospice House in Warren, Pennsylvania, founded by my Aunt Jane Tucker, R.N., and others and where my mother died
Allegheny River & Hickory St Bridget in Warren, Pennsylvania, my hometown