But the tough part is remembering that our aim here is *coexistence*.

We're never going to be fully understood by those around us - or CAN be - because we all have different communication and conflict resolution styles.

Some of us can hold different views in tension. Some of us cannot.

And yet still, somehow, here we are, getting by together one day at a time.

It is not easy.

We screw up often.

Nonetheless, what a mark of our tenacity, when we keep trying to bridge the unbridgeable divide.