Remember the story of Margaret Mead’s Femur?

Civilization began, she said, in a healed femur. Because it meant someone had taken the time and effort to heal someone else.

Think of all that entailed, the desire to nurture, togetherness, fundamental caring. Cooperation, not just competition. Valuing another as a life with inherent and intrinsic worth. It’s what I offer you, a place where together we do the hard, difficult, beautiful work of lifting each other up, as we walk beside one another, and sometimes stumble. I want you to…