No one is coming to save you

Secure your own mask before helping others

“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.”
–Mahatma Gandhi

In July 2020, while a global pandemic raged, my friends and I cobbled together our collective privilege and sought solace at a vacation home in Ojai, California.

It was there i…