We continue with this week’s writing topic: empathy. Because when there is so much going on — Iraq, Gaza, Ebola — you have to wonder what is really our capacity to share and understand each other?

“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand.”

—Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones