Dear Anna,

Don’t get lost in smoke and noise.

Come back home.

Outrage is used as a tactic.

Your participation is voluntary.

Be wiser than the smoke and flares.

Calm yourself.

Bring the wise voices from history into your thinking. Elie Wiesel and Marcus Aurelius await.

Get out of the endless “I.”

Get out of main character syndrome.

Don’t get lost in a sea of unconvincing ego claims. If there’s no conversation, if there’s no real discourse, there’s a problem—no matter what side someone is on.

Engagement with the truth means a duty to cut through noise and find signal. Find the signal.

Humility is where you begin.

Love, Anna