We the Humanity

Dorothy asked: "Would we look the same if we all had dust and windburn smearing our faces, necks, and arms? Would we all feel the same after working day after day, hour after hour in the fields, barely alive and able to sustain just our immediate families in thought and in grain? Would we love each other if we bared all our pains and turbulences, our fears and talismanic obsessions, to each other and to ourselves? Or, would we hate each other, then slowly begin to love each other, just as it takes time for the cookies to warm up and the bread to inflate? If we never washed our bodies, if we never used so much soap and make-up, if we stopped looking at ourselves in the mirror so much, would we begin to resemble each other, and ourselves, at last?"

After three days, Polona replied: "Exactly. That's why resemblances are more striking than differences."

Then Polona and Dorothy said together, in unison: "Why not focus on the resemblances? The scary, the striking, the beautiful, the enchanting, the unsettling, resemblances?"

At night, the Moon is brighter than the Sun.