Bridges are not easy things to build.  They are certainly not built overnight.  And sometimes a bridge that we’ve taken for granted – a connection we always thought would be there – is washed away in a storm.  Depending on how much of the original foundation remains, rebuilding that bridge can be more challenging than it was to construct the first one.

Across the Echo Chamber, a Quiet Conversation About War and Race, by Jennifer Medina, appeared in the New York Times on November 5, 2023.  In it, Medina describes an initial attempt at reconnection not long after the terrible storm of the Hamas attack on Israel and the Israeli response.  In a very real sense, it describes an attempt to rebuild a bridge during a storm.  And it ends with a question, not an answer.

– Dennis Huffman,  Advisor,  Building Bridges Word by Word