And it struck me then, and I’ve never forgotten it: rain is an opportunity to share an umbrella.

2020 bleeding into the next chapter of 2021 may feel like the longest rainstorm we could possibility have to weather. But even the throes of a pandemic offers the same gift: rain is an opportunity to share an umbrella. Each storm is an invitation to look out beyond our own inconvenience and misery to see who else might also be caught in the pelting rain.

Rain is a gift that can help us see.

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