A cry for help can look like anything

What is expressed is not always what is meant

When you are a witness to another human's full-bodied, full-throated, unrestrained grieving, it stays with you. So when I think about what it might take to heal our global traumas, I wonder if we will be able to give people time and space to make those sounds—and if we will be willing to listen.

–Jane McGonigal

There's this story about an old man¹, Joseph,…