It Hurts Me Too: Make America Kind Always - March 9, 2025

So sings Elmore James in his classic blues song. “When things go wrong with you, it hurts me too.” But we appear to be at a time when there is a decided lack of empathy and feeling another’s pain is a sign of weakness, of failure. Empathy is the missing ingredient in this lunatic scenario we’re living through. It can be empowered. It can be grown. And it will save us all.