This was EXCELLENT, Brooke.

By humanizing the story, you access the key that I think is required to unlock this complicated box: the heart.

While I recognize there are no easy answers as to what to "do," I suggest that the first step is to not use the head, which so often wants to "do" something. It's the masculine energy which, IMHO, has been too dominate in our world politics for thousands of years, leaving us out of balance.

No, what's required is to "feel," using the feminine energies, accessing the heart.

Your article is a great model for HOW to do that.

So I'm going to fight the masculine impulse that actually drove me to the article (for I wanted to answer the question in your headline), and rather than posting my answer about what to do, I'll just say: Do more of this. Well done.