The Solitary Human Being

On occasion I have said to clients that we are all spiders on the same web---we are all connected.  Even when loneliness and sadness seem to drive us into a 'corner of despair.' We are, really, never alone.  It is simply impossible.   TJS

"In Africa when you ask someone, 'How are you?' the reply you get is in the plural even when you are speaking to one person.  A man would say, 'We are well' or 'We are not well.'  He himself may be quite well, but his grandmother is not well and so he is not well either...The solitary, isolated human being is really a contradiction in terms."  ---Desmond Tutu