Aloneness is a Radical Act

But it doesn't have to be.

Yesterday, I went to an event at a sit-in protest against the felling of trees along a main boulevard in the city where I live.

There were about 20 people there, but nobody I knew personally.

I had decided to go and it hadn’t seemed imperative to “bring a friend”. Certainly, the virtual flyers I’d seen circulating about the protest hadn’t indicated the ne…