Friends,
May has started. In five days, most of Europe will mark eighty-one years since a war ended. Eighty-one years is long enough that almost no one who fought is left to tell it. Short enough that some still remember.
Peace is what happens when memory does its work. Without memory, peace is just a holiday from something we forgot how to fear.
Eight minutes tonight. 8 PM your local time. Sit with someone who is no longer here. Doesn't have to be a soldier. Could be anyone whose absence shaped your life.
Come as you are. Even angry. Even grateful. Even not sure why you came.
See you later, in the silence.
Dedication: May the ones we lost know they are still held. May we become the peace they could not finish building.
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