“We are being conditioned to shut down—slowly, steadily, and almost imperceptibly. The barrage of cruelty, confusion, spectacle, and spin has a cumulative effect. It wears on our capacity to feel, to care, to respond with presence rather than reflex. We are being trained, through repetition, to expect harm, and then to normalize it. That is the danger of this moment—not just political collapse or climate unraveling or the erosion of public trust—but the numbing of our souls… Tenderness, then, is not weakness—it is resistance in its most radiant form…” (Reverend Cameron Trimble). Perhaps our very existence can be resistance.