Poverty

Today we buried someone who was poor, so poor the family had to beg for a grave. And because of their poverty some thought they had no right to their grief and sorrow. They thought instead they should be grateful and nothing more.

It is symptomatic of so much thought that excludes from humanity those who do not, or cannot, attain or what have not, for whatever reason, conformed to what seems a norm. The poor are excluded more than most. Their human-ness is denied, and in denial of it we are denying our own.