As I pulled up the blinds, I thought to myself: It’s Groundhog Day. Here we go again.

And then the most amazing thing happened: I saw myself as a small thread in this tapestry of our planet — and my own little personal experience as one tiny fleck of color and texture. And I realized that every single person will wake up and face today with some feeling and have their own experience of it. And either I could continue to see myself as the star of my own movie — or I could embrace my place in the whole as the whole reason I am — any of us — are here.

And when I did that, everything eased.