"The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." - William Faulkner

We cannot erase the past, nor can we bury it. [..] and any good therapist will agree: if you do not recognize your past consciously, it will demand your recognition subconsciously. All we can do is act now to set that past in a larger, redeeming perspective. As long as we live, such acts - we call them mitzvot - are constantly possible. Each small act of kindness, of wholeness, of love, defies the darkness of our isolation from each other in this 9th month of the Great Pandemic. And it will redeem our perspective in ways that will define these days in ways we cannot possibly imagine now. - Rabbi Ariel Stone