I’ve written a lot about the importance and power of openness. It’s definitely something I struggle with at times; I can be very judgmental. It can be so easy to form opinions about people, even without knowing the whole story. But when we infer we limit ourselves to possibilities. Choices and options we didn’t know existed could present themselves if we maintain openness. Simple, but not easy. Maybe if there’s one thing we can focus on as a nation, as a species, it’s to practice openness toward our fellow humans. We are so much more alike than we are different. Our circumstances and environments may differ, but our shared reality in this crazy thing we call the universe remains. We’re in this together.