When we as individuals choose our responses from prosocial behaviours, and promote those behaviours in ourselves and others, we are doing our part to keep the lever of basic care and kindness from reaching a tipping point and falling toward selfishness and apathy.

Realizing I hadn’t captured the depth of my changes so readers could “feel” along with me, not just read, I’m editing my book one more time replacing descriptions of how I feel with sensations and action. It's called “showing” not “telling”. It feels peculiar because I’m reliving the book as I edit and spending more time in those singular moments of awareness that preceded all the changes I made.