“People in the valley have been broken open. They have been reminded that they are not just the parts of themselves that they put on display.” -David Brooks
The journalist and columnist David Brooks has written and spoken eloquently about the challenges of the moral life, and life in general. Some years ago he recounted the experience of a woman he met in Ohio who came home one Sunday to find that her husband had killed their children and himself, perhaps one of the most horrific things one can imagine.
She recovered from this and devoted her life to s…