Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.
What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.
Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and descendants, those who went before with those will come after us.
