What compels people towards anger and ridicule at the sight of someone 'other'? Someone whose appearance goes against their own instincts of 'good taste', or even more fundamentally, someone whose choice of clothing, lifestyle, even essence of being does not readily harmonize with what they themselves can understand?
      What deeply rooted insecurity makes it so difficult for people to sit with a vastly complex world at large? A world in which infinite energies, aesthetics, religions, spiritualities, shapes and sizes of species co-exist? The older I get, the more I realize how these differences need to be acknowledged, celebrated..at very least accepted with kindness for our own well being--for our own wholeness to emerge.