Vulnerable and Lonely

“Our report suggests that 36% of all Americans—including 61% of young adults
and 51% of mothers with young children—feel ‘serious loneliness.’ Not
surprisingly, loneliness appears to have increased substantially since the
outbreak of the global pandemic” (“Loneliness in America: How the Pandemic
Has Deepened an Epidemic of Loneliness and What We Can Do about It,”
Making Caring Common Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education,
February 2021, https://mcc.gse.harvard.edu/reports/loneliness-in-america). Two
of the three recommendations from the article involve intentional commitment to
community: “We need to begin reimagining and reweaving our social
relationships in health care, schools, and many other institutions. … [We need] to
restore our commitments to each other and the common good to renew a
founding promise of this country: that we have commitments to ourselves, but we
also have vital commitments to each other, including to those who are
vulnerable.”