An important lesson learned on December 25, 2020, when I spent the COVID-19 pandemic Christmas alone, walking my dog under 220 meters of earth in the Blue Ridge mountains.

The March for Our Lives on March 24, 2018, was a protest against gun violence organized following a series of mass shootings in schools across the United States. Organizers called for gun control legislation, and the march on Washington featured several speaker-survivors from the latest in the series of shootings that took place at Stoneman Douglas High School.

Image: Protesters gathering near the speaker stage on Constitution Ave, Washington, D.C.