May is a month of celebration—weddings, graduations, the first glimpses of summer. And yet, as the sun burns bright and vacations begin, the world cries out in unbearable pain, acts of darkness casting heavy shadows.
A quick glance at our phones reveals a friend’s day at the beach just a scroll away from the words of a Uvalde mother whose child is no more. The dissonance, the contrast of light and darkness, feels unreal.
In “For Such a Month As This,” Jamie Aten and Ken Aten provide trauma-informed resources designed to meet the needs of this very moment.
“May you be better equipped to care for people in your life and community who are hurting,” they write. “And may you be equipped to care for yourself as you help others.”
