[John Asherah]

That the most fragile and innocent among us are endangered, is the shame of this world.

It is the unprecedented occurrence that conveys greatest risk and opportunity.
Here, lessons of the past may be unrevealing.

The random is indeterminate in any single instance.

Chance and causality collaborate.

If all were predestined, existence would be pointless.

Freedom of will is an unpredictable element that provides the joy of the unexpected, even to the prescient.

The influence of random factors is powerful.

Many desire to impose order upon the riot of nature.
Yet, the role of the random is as essential as order.

To thrive amid chaos is most difficult, yet essential.

To intervene in complex systemic interactions may produce unforeseen consequences. A disastrous cascade may result.

A child unloved, turns hatred first in upon themselves and then out onto the world.

By the rod may a child be ruined beneath the flesh; taught violence and inclined to respond in kind.

Confess not merely your wrongs, but the inner workings of your heart to another and find comfort in your shared humanity.

To listen deeply, is to hear beneath the words to the meaning and is a craft of the spirit.

In the soothing of another's grief, is your own cure often found.

Nearly everyone can teach you something you need to learn.